Vanished in the Sand

In 524 BC, the Persian King Cambyses II dispatched an army of fifty thousand elite soldiers into the Sahara Desert. Their mission was to destroy the Oracle of Amun at the Siwa Oasis. They marched into the unforgiving dunes and were never seen again. For over two millennia, the fate of the lost army of Cambyses has been one of the most maddening puzzles in ancient history. While classical histori...