Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Vanished Persian army found in Egyptian desert?

When we were in Siwa, we heard the tales of the Persian army that was headed to Siwa over two and a half thousand years ago, in search of the temple of Amun, that was cursed and were killed by a sandstorm in the middle of the desert. No one knew if they lost their way or what had actually happenned to them.

Now Italian Researchers claim to have found the remains of the army.

Read the whole story here on msnbc

2 comments:

Hicham said...

This is one of the famous stories in the history of Ancient Egypt. I heared about this few days ago and it seems interesting indeed.

Canadian in Egypt said...

Created link to my blog Egypt Hints and Quirks - nice and very interesting info. Great --- Darell