50 thousand people disappear at the same time? There has been only one legend for thousands of years. What happened afterwards?

Persian Empire is the predecessor of Iran, and it is also a great empire that spanned Europe and Asia more than two thousand years ago. In the 7th century AD, the Assyrian Empire ruled the Persian Plateau. Later, the three kingdoms destroyed it and carved up the territory of the Assyrian empire. Among them, the kingdom of Mitis has just acquired a large area of land in the Persian Plateau. Their inhuman and barbaric rule conquered the Persians.

In 553 BC, Cyrus II, the most famous mission of the Persian Empire, led the Persians to launch a war against Assyrian rule. In just three years, the Assyrians were driven away and the Persian Empire was established. Since it is called an empire, it is obviously not worthy of the name without a large area of territory. Cyrus II was also an ambitious king. He destroyed the kingdom of Lydia and the new kingdom of Babylon.

By 539 BC, the eastern border had reached the Indus Valley, almost bordering on ancient China. Unfortunately, Cyrus II was killed in the process of foreign conquest. In 530 AD, he was killed by Masagatai people. As the saying goes, "A country can't live without a monarch for a day", and his son Cambyses Ⅱ succeeded to the throne smoothly. Cambyses Ⅱ is a young and ambitious king. He inherited his father's legacy and constantly expanded the territory of the Persian Empire.

Cambyses Ⅱ sent people to attack ancient Greece and India, and the brave Persians won without any resistance. This also makes young Cambyses's psychology gradually change from self-confidence to conceit. There is an old saying in China that "a good tree in the forest will be destroyed by the wind". Almost all the countries around the original land were conquered by him, further expanding his ambition, and he turned his attention to Amon, a distant place in the west.

Without fully understanding the specific situation of Amon, he sent 50,000 troops, believing that he could successfully win this country. Those soldiers have some antipathy to the war because of their long years of fighting. It is the first time for them to travel long distances to Amon. These factors make them travel very slowly. Seven days later, the troops finally found an oasis across the desert and found a small town there.

The army leader ordered the whole army to rest here for a period of time. This was a normal thing. Soldiers are tired, so they have a rest and recover their physical function. But to everyone's surprise, this rest made all the soldiers in the army bid farewell to this world. 50,000 people and 50,000 heavily armed soldiers just vanished into the desert. It was hard to believe this fact then and now.

For thousands of years, the historical research on the disappearance of the unit has never stopped. Many archaeologists have been to the place where the unit disappeared in the literature, but they have not found any clues. So many people even think that there is no such army of 50 thousand, which is just a legend invented by historians.

Until 2004, as early as 1999, two Italian archaeologists who paid attention to the bizarre disappearance of 50,000 people finally found some mummies and weathered weapons of 50,000 Persian soldiers in the vast desert this year. According to textual research, it is certain to a great extent that this is the Persian army that disappeared that year.

This incident quickly caused a sensation in the archaeological community, and the Iranian government attached great importance to it after learning about it. They immediately ruled out their own archaeologists to study with the two Italian archaeologists. Of course, the number of mummies and weapons unearthed is limited, far less than the number of 50 thousand people. Some people still think that this is not the remains of 50,000 Persian soldiers who disappeared that year, but in any case, it has at least opened a door for the archaeological community to study this matter, and more resources have focused on this matter. I hope that one day in the future, archaeologists can really reveal the mystery to the world!