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From ANUNNAKI, EVOLUTION OF THE GODS by Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) & Janet Kira Lessin (CEO, Aquarian Media).
Cambyses II, the second King of Persia’s Achaemenid Empire from 530 to 522 BCE, was the son and successor of Cyrus. In 538, BCE Cambyses governed northern Babylonia under Cyrus. In 530 BCE Cyrus made Cambyses his co-ruler of the whole Empire. After Cyrus’s death, Cambyses ruled the Empire without any overt opposition.
Cambyses conquered Gaza, Egypt, and Ethiopia. In the 525 BCE battle of Pelusium against Egypt’s Pharaoh Psamtic III, Cambyses’ cavalry herded cats, dogs, and sheep before them. Egyptian archers refused to kill the cats since Egyptian law mandated death for anyone killing a cat, so the Persians on horses following the animals took Pelusium with no withering hail of arrows to stop them.
DARIUS may have murdered Cambyses: he succeeded him. Herodotus, who cast ignominy on the Persians (whom Greeks considered bad guys), said that while mounting his horse, the tip of Cambyses’ scabbard broke and his sword pierced his thigh and he died from this.
Modern historians, however, suspect that either supporters of his younger brother Bardiya or supporters of Darius, son of a provincial governor in the Empire, killed Cambyses.
Darius led a coalition that wanted him as King. Bardiya served as King for a short time, then committed suicide and Darius became the next King of the Persians. [Van De Mieroop, 2003, A History of the Ancient Near East,” in Blackwell History of the Ancient World. Wiley.]
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