The Lost Army

In 525 B.C., the Persian king Cambyses sent fifty-thousand soldiers across the conquered Egyptian desert to take an oasis city not far from where the Libyan border stands today. According to Greek history, a hurricane-force sandstorm struck near the end of their six-hundred-mile trek. The army-all fifty thousand men-vanished without a single trace. Fast forward to 1986. A British archaeological te...