Lost Army of Cambyses
The Lost Army of Cambyses was a military force sent by Cambyses II, emperor of the Achaemenid Empire and conqueror of Egypt, to threaten the Oracle of Amun in Siwa during the 6th century BCE.
History[edit | edit source]
At some point during its journey across the kingdom of Egypt, between 525 and 522 BCE, the army was waylaid by a sandstorm and lost to the desert. The army's existence shortly passed into story, and by 49 BCE was a legend known through Egypt.[1]
Sometime around 440 BCE, the Greek historian Herodotos included the Lost Army of Cambyses in the third book of his Histories.[1]
Sometime around 34 BCE, the Hidden One Bayek of Siwa travelled to the Seth-Anat Tomb in the Desheret Desert – built within the remains of the Isu construct Qeneb.too Kah'Aiye – in order to investigate rumours of a curse spreading up from Thebes. Whilst travelling to the tomb, the Hidden One was attacked by the ghostly apparitions of undead soldiers who supposedly were a part of the Lost Army of Cambyses. Upon returning the source of the curse to its rightful place within the tomb, the undead soldiers returned to the sands.[2]
Appearances[edit | edit source]
- Assassin's Creed: Origins (mentioned only)
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Assassin's Creed: Origins
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Origins – Lights Among the Dunes