Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

In 525 B.C., the Persian Emperor Cambyses dispatched 50,000 of his soldiers to lay waste to an oasis temple in the Sahara because its oracle had spoken ill of his plans for world domination. The punitive expedition disappeared, swallowed up by the Sahara, and its fate became one of antiquity's most dramatic episodes of imperial overreach. But recent excavations in western Egypt by a team of Italian archaeologists may have unearthed traces of this long-lost army, entombed in the desert for some 2,500 years.

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There's a companion piece with photographs at www.mailonsunday.ie

Just remember: The fact this army has been discovered by archeology doesn't mean Cambyses ever existed.

Even though he makes it through Bishop Ussher's 6,013-year window?

Lord I'd hate to be lost for 2,500 Years. Can You imagine going to the same place every so often and not recognizing it?? Geepers.

Lost for 2500 years?

And the Jews thought they had it bad wondering the Desert for only 40 years......

........there was another lost army in history. The Fakawis were a race of pygmies in central Africa. They lived in the mountains of the Congo. They went to war with their neighbors, the Kufus, who lived in the Savanah. As the pygmy army ran down into the Savanah to attack the Kufus, they made the mistake of going at the height of the growing season. The pygmy Fakawis averaged about 4 feet in height, but the Savanah grasses were well over 6 feet during the summer. Their army was lost, and never reached the villages of the Kufus, but neither did they return home to their mountains. The Kufus tell the story to this day of the battle that never was, when they heard the Fakawis chanting and attacking through the grass, yelling "We're the Fakawis... we're the fakawis".

Great story doc. Thanks!

Its interesting to note this discovery was made while looking for the Iraq WMD that the US based its invasion of Iraq on.

Based on this discovery it has been determined yet more time is needed to locate the WMD. Perhaps another 2500 years researchers estimate.

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