In the Sahara desert, an army was sent by a conqueror, an angry man
It was lost in a seemingly endless ocean of sand, in their eyes and lungs
It had become Hell upon planet Earth, all in the form of a dust storm
The eyes burned, each face and exposed flesh turned raw, the last stand
Who could survive, emptiness in every direction, all exposed to harm
No survivors of an army of legend, the Sahara was a dangerous land
None should go into the waste, danger was immense, oracles warned
Their last words unknown, fears and expressions of sorrow now lost
It isn't hard to imagine the disaster, nor the catastrophe's final cost
Lost in battle, lost in the storm, their loved ones would still mourn
"The Lost Army of Cambyses was, according to an ancient legend, a
formation of 50,000 Persian soldiers that disappeared in the Western
Desert of Egypt in 524 BC after becoming engulfed in a sandstorm.
They'd supposedly been sent by Cambyses II in order to subjugate
the Oracle
of Amun at the Siwa Oasis. Around this time, Cambyses,
who'd
succeeded Cyrus the Great as monarch, was leading the first
Achaemenid
conquest of Egypt." From Wikipedia
The Persian Expedition is said to have been found... The Source
