Finding The Remains Of 50,000 Persian Soldiers That Vanished In A Sandstorm | The Lost Army 

1:33. The preservation of that six thousand year old cigarette is amazing. I bet it’s a Camel.

Mfs go all the way out in the desert and didn’t think to bring a $50 metal detector.

That dramatisation of the man dropping the water jug is so...accurate. That was how I found a man in the Grand Canyon when my son and I took a "short hike" . there was a heat wave, and this man had hiked from the bottom that day. I found his water bottle first. I found him lying by the trail next. I got some water in him and walked with him up to the rim. He was the one of three parties my son and I met who had been badly affected by the extreme heat. The brain shuts down fast when it gets too hot.

Should have been titled TRYING to find the remains....

Clickbait. This was just a road trip where they stepped on some human skull bits and did no archeology. What was the point?

I skipped and fast fwd ahead to the end because it was getting boring and they still can't find it 😂

So how did Herodotus know that they got halfway before getting buried by a sandstorm?

A solider is a solider no matter the time or place. RESPECT

A thrilled watching documentary about vanished Persian armies disappeared in depth of Egyptian desert 🏜 ... Persian warriors dreamed of approaching seawater oases... They never reached ..

8:35 I think the Persians could have made their arrow heads a bit better… but man, they sure could roll a hell of a cigarette.

Science World Report, article by Benita Matilda, 2014 -- "They were not swallowed up by a sandstorm as ancient historians would like us to believe but very likely defeated by a rebel army and to cover up the ignominious defeat, subsequent rulers supported the fable of a great sandstorm swallowing an army, according to an Egyptologist Olaf Kaper, professor at Leiden University"

What a waste of time. Clickbait. fyi they never conclusively find anything. They stumble across a handful of unknown scraps. Nothing conclusive. This could’ve been shortened down into 3 min

The amount of ethnocentrism coming from all of the people interviewed is astounding.

this egyptian dude they put in charge of antiquities should go back and work at the local pawnshop where he is almost qualified .

This may be a silly question, but if they know where the site is, why not fly an airplane over it and take photos, before driving all that far?

Clickbait. Numerous remains ( including a persian dagger ) of the lost persian army have been discovered and recovered since years. They are showcased in the Castiglioni museum in Italy.

She’s the type that guides walk out on.

Dieing of thirst is said to be particularly unpleasant

They traveled through the night, rest in daytime

Bronze armour is weaker than Iron. It would be much thicker and heavier, a nightmare without wheels.

bet they dont find them...just like bigfoot shows

Thank you for touching this history mystery that is 2000 plus years lost in the western desert...

I'm learning so much from your videos. Please keep them coming!

You have got to be absolutely kidding me ! That is a historical find . This will be in text books and museums from now on .

The leaps in technology being made now makes the likelihood of there being many more of these adventures in the future very remote. LiDAR surveys of Amazonian rainforests have all but made Hiram Bingham's ilk obselete.

Should be renamed "Not Finding The Remains..." This makes me very skeptical of any other videos from this channel.

Biggles... found them, brilliant story. BIGGLES FLIES SOUTH

What an excellent video. Thank you.

Is it wrong to have wanted to leave her in the desert....

Thanks bro. Semper Fi

"Real History". Yes, the topic is history. So is the documentary. This is old, man.

I think they're on to something. The artifacts convinced me. I think the army got scattered around but I think most of them will be within a few miles of that spot. I think this because of how other groups of people have perished in deserts or mountains. Usually the bulk of them die off within the same day and others are weak so they wouldn't make it far from the spot where the major die off happened. Now, Im just an amateur at studying these thing but they have more than just a skull in the desert. They have historical records to track the path of the army. They were on that path when they found artifacts and remains. They mentioned that it could be a burial site... Okay but there is no evidence that any other groups have come to that area. Why would there be a burial site there, when there are no towns or trade routes near there? Until I saw something to suggest otherwise, I would stay on that track. They just need more evidence and a bigger team but I think they have enough to justify a proper expedition for sure.

That antiquities guy didn't put any effort in identifying those artifacts like it's a competition.

Weather manipulation by the “chosen “ . Over and over

Todays Iran (Persia) is a minimum of 1500 km away from Egypt with deserts in between. What was so attractive 50,000 soldier made the journey?

REAL HISTORY shows a program about... a LEGEND, a MYTH. How low can one go?

Is it possible that a small group of soldiers made it back to tell their story of the sandstorm?

Thank you for this. MASSIVE lost in history of this subject. Assyrians, Chaldeans, Persians, Greecians, Romens, Phoenician, are we to be the next IANS a thousand years from now?

Egyptian archeologists are some of the biggest ego loving scientists

This just goes to show me how the whole story of Moses is just that a story ...you can't march over a million Israelites to Egypt then March the same amount out miles upon miles with enough food and water for everyone to survive

excellent accounting by Brian Dexter

The conditions in the eastern Sahara change radically between summer and winter. The degree of hardship would vary accordingly.

You tell me how an army of fifty thousand packs enough water and food for a week or two! Water for drinking, cooking, cleaning. Then all the food and water for the pack animals.

This vid reminds me of the Bermuda Triangle rage of the 70s. A lot of conjecture, little fact, and voila … you have a “mystery”.

Cool. We’ve been deflating tires to drive in the desert for decades in the U.S. southwest, too.

They are out there, somewhere, but turned to dust and blown into history after 2,500 years...

Hey friend, save yourself some time and find something else to watch. I'm saying this to you as that is what I would have wanted to hear. YW bros/bro-ettes. ❤

Cigarette. An important survival item. You mean to tell me archaeologists don’t carry a ruler?

Damn I didn’t know I wasn’t subscribed to you.

Gail seems to have gone out there to shoot all the evidence down, without even really looking at any of it. she's the archeologist there and there wasn't much done by her. Why even go?

The mirror image of a blizzard

Is there a follow up episode to this?

That must have been a miserable trip, The know-it-all woman who doubts the knowledge of the bedouin guide and because she brushes some grains of sand away from a bone, suddenly thinks her doubts are validated. Then there's the guy who wants so badly to find the army that he's seeing any bone as proof. Then there's the geologist who found the items in the first place, claiming to have found vast quantities of bones that fail to turn up when these idiots arrive. The only guy who sounds reasonable is the guy from Egyptian Antiquities who said that "out of context" items can really be anything at all, even Persian and still mean nothing. Finally, the idiots travel all the way to this remote spot, yet somehow forgot to bring a metal detector that would allow them to find bronze weapons.

Handy when the food carries the water

Pretty neat film. Thanks from an armchair archaeologist.

i don't know how well logic would work on something like this, but in my brain i see taking the last known location and the place where they were supposed to end up, draw a line, but then go off to the left/right for water along the way, and around ½ way (isn't that what they said?) start looking for a place where, at that period in history, a route/road would've led them to an oasis or whatever it was supposed to be, and start looking in an area or radius from that ½ way point. medal detectors and other aids might help. also, is there a way to look at the sands of a desert and tell that stuff lies beneath?

If you find a cigarett you probably find humans nearby

I’m thinking the area has been excavated already

We have a Persian kitty cat. It's a really good cat.

Once again we are treated to an hour of nothing. The soldiers f they existed are gone and no one has found them. Come back to us when you have an answer... really a lot of my time for nothing. One day I will learn. But not here!

Why, just to extend the dialog, do the interviewers ask fatuous questions. “Do you think the whole army is berried at this location”? Well, if there were no survivors, to tell of the tragedy, then obviously the whole of Cambyses’s army must be there.

Can you imagine how bad 50 thousand dead bodies rotting in the desert sun would’ve smelled? All you’d have to do is follow the bugs and flies

you should have to PAY RU-vid TO PUT THIS JUNK ON !

50,000 US army troops were killed and left where they lay in Korea as well. No sandstorm and they're probably still there today. Marines went in and retrieved their men but not the army.

I find it incredilous that 50.000 men could go missing ...even in a desert.......and little of no trace to be found....

What a phenomenal undertaking. Couldn't DNA analysis tell give them a closer timeline?

Some things chucked along the way, travel light

30 minutes in, their still looking, i decided to check comments then skip the last 20 minutes.

What is this woman on about . British army i was in lost men in one sand storm and only half of us reached Algeria

that's how archeologists go on vacation, with proper funding.

This is cool. The guy calling it the find of several centuries when gobekli tepe is a thing is pretty ridiculous though. Or the Tuetenburg Forest. Or a bunch of other things.

Just more reason why we shouldn’t listen to geologists when it comes to archaeology. They have a little overlap, but not much.

The pot was either full of something or had been emptied of something. 😂 Thank you Captain Obvious.

I woudln't have it written in historical records that I lost 50K soldiers from a sandstorm.

You think when they went missing, the King sent a search party? Recovered the hard goods.

*LIDAR drones needed, to scan the area*

160 yrds..short 9 iron? I need to step up my game

Almasy, yes... And Bagnold, and Peniakov...

It’s been 2600 years. You think it’s been looted already?

37:50 He hits a 9-iron 160 meters and calls it "short"? Maybe in a legendary sandstorm.

Have to ask why no metal detector was available to use by the searchers. WHY?? Many metal artifacts might have been right under the surface and easy to recover.

⚔️Searching for Roman legion chariots in a sand swept desert, would have to end at the point where, the thin wheeled chariots could no longer be driver on, perhaps.🛡️

Did they not bring metal detectors on this expedition or just look on the surface for skull fragments? This was highly disappointing.

The army of 50000 will be discoverd surely but in future, and from an unexpected area. It will be discovered surely, but when technology would be more advance. The army is sleeping peacefully, so peacefully that does not want to be disturbed. 😢

How would Herodotus have known what happened if no one got out alive?

Dollars to doughnuts says it's been "found" multiple times over the centuries and picked clean.

If you can visit Oracle of Sewa today, how do you get there? The search team in this video seems pretty amateurish.

There are a number of inaccuracies, and the repetitive references to Almazy, and ignoring Bagnold and the drivers from NZ who eventually fed the creation of the LRDG. This is poor and speculative scholarship

They took a page from the history channels recent playbook. Total clickbait.

All that way, and no one brought a metal detector?

Just because the story is from Herodotus does not mean that it isn't true.

Why don't we look with radar like they are doing in South america???

So these modern archaeologists are in the desert with no hats or obvious sun protection. Especially the woman, have they never heard of skin cancer?

⚔️U didn’t find an animal skeleton with that single skeleton. So, it could be a single casualty, from the army, who either perished first or even along the way.🛡️

Lidar could find the armor from outer space..

Bro looks like an old version of He Man!

Fire by night

And Who sent the sand???

I can't help but wonder why they don't they use the 6-wheel drive fat tire vehicles like they use in Iceland, Greenland & the Arctic.

When will you learn the difference between bullshit & lies??