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2009-11-10 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Ancient, Lost Army of 50,000 Persians Found After 2,500 Years

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-11-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Investigation by Amnesty International?

Posted by borgboy 2009-11-10 00:12|| 2009-11-10 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Bush'es Fault!

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-11-10 00:58|| 2009-11-10 00:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Global Wind. Al Gore is on the case and will sell you sand credits.

Posted by ed 2009-11-10 01:13|| 2009-11-10 01:13|| Front Page Top

#4 The event actually happened. Its not just a story. I first read about it as a boy, the story is very old. Cambyses is an extremely long time ago.
How long ago is Alexander the Great? Cambyses is even older than that by half a millenium.

Imagine 50,000 men is a Sahara sand storm like a "shimal" with no cover and no protection at all. Imagine the year is eight centuries before the birth of Christ. Alexander the Great wont be born for another four hundred years...as long ago as we are from the Sir Francis Drake today.

The shimal is a blown wall of Sand coming faster than a truck can drive and towering half a mile high for as far as you can see. And you are in the open... on the floor of Hell. And its nearly 3,000 years ago.

Posted by Angleton9 2009-11-10 08:51|| 2009-11-10 08:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Bronze weapons and 525 B.C. don't go together.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-11-10 09:21|| 2009-11-10 09:21|| Front Page Top

#6 They're always in the last place you look.

Posted by Mike 2009-11-10 11:16|| 2009-11-10 11:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Bronze weapons and 525 B.C. don't go together. Maybe the evidence is that of an even earlier army lost in the sands.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-11-10 12:45|| 2009-11-10 12:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Organic sun-dried Persians, anyone?

Posted by mojo 2009-11-10 13:54|| 2009-11-10 13:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Bronze weapons - maybe they're talking about armor or something?

I have to admit that it sounds unlikely that they found a specific expedition's remains. Seems rather like someone declaring a cluster of galley wrecks off the south coast of Sicily was the Roman fleet catastrophically lost during the First Punic War. Yeah, it has to be down there somewhere, but that lee shore was killing single ships and squadrons off and on for more than two thousand years of trade and warfare.

It's kind of like drawing a bucket through a sand-dune downwind from the pyramids and selling the contents to tourists as bits fallen off of the monuments.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-11-10 16:08|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-11-10 16:08|| Front Page Top

#10 It's kind of like drawing a bucket through a sand-dune downwind from the pyramids and selling the contents to tourists as bits of mummies from plundered tombs.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-11-10 20:37|| 2009-11-10 20:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Alexander died around 323 BC. Cambyses was abt 200 yrs before.

Posted by Broadhead6 2009-11-10 21:21|| 2009-11-10 21:21|| Front Page Top

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