The Strange Disappearance Of An Army Of 50,000 Persian Warriors

King Cambyses II, son of Cyrus the Great, led the Achaemenid Empire in the 5th century BC. He dispatched a 50,000-strong army, known as the Army of Cambyses, to attack the Temple of Amun (Ammonians).

King Cambyses II, ruler of the Achaemenid Empire (First Persian Empire) and son of the legendary Cyrus the Great, in the 5th century BC sent an army of 50 thousand men (Army of Cambyses) to attack the inhabitants of the Temple of Amun (Ammonians).

Imaginary 19th-century illustration of Cambyses II meeting Psamtik III. Wikipedia