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Cambyses in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Cambyses may
refer to:
Cambyses I, King of
Anshan 600 to 559 BCE
Cambyses II, King of
Persia 530 to...
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Cambyses II (Old Persian: 𐎣𐎲𐎢𐎪𐎡𐎹, romanized: Kaᵐbūjiya) was the
second King of
Kings of the
Achaemenid Empire from 530 to 522 BC. He was the son...
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Cambyses I (Old Persian: 𐎣𐎲𐎢𐎪𐎡𐎹 Kambūjiya) was king of
Anshan from c. 580 to 559 BC and the
father of
Cyrus the
Great (Cyrus II),
younger son of...
- The
Judgement of
Cambyses is an oil-on-wood
diptych by
Dutch artist Gerard David,
depicting the
arrest and
flaying of the
corrupt Persian judge Sisamnes...
- 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...
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genealogy of the Achaemenids) the
kings of
Anshan were Teispes,
Cyrus I,
Cambyses I and
Cyrus II, also
known as
Cyrus the Great, who
founded the empire....
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royal judge active in the
Persian empire during the
reign of
Cambyses II of Persia. When
Cambyses learned that
Sisamnes had
accepted a
bribe to
influence a...
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served as the
Achaemenid ceremonial capital. He was
succeeded by his son
Cambyses II,
whose campaigns into
North Africa led to the
conquests of Egypt, Nubia...
- Tanuoxárkēs) by Ctesias, was a son of
Cyrus the
Great and the
younger brother of
Cambyses II, both
Persian kings.
There are
sharply divided views on his life. Bardiya...
- The
Cambyses Romance is an
anonymous Sahidic Coptic prose narrative composed no
later than the 7th
century AD. It is a
fictionalized account of the invasion...
