# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cambyses-ii
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:44:37.889Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/cambyses-ii"
name: "Cambyses II"
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description: "The Persian king who conquered Egypt in 525 BCE and died weeks later from an infected thigh wound while racing home to crush a rebellion — leaving an empire that passed through his brother's hands in months before Darius seized it."
tagline: "The second Achaemenid emperor (530–522 BC)"
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birthDate: "-559"
deathDate: "-522"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Cambyses II inherited the Achaemenid throne in 530 BCE when his father Cyrus the Great fell fighting the Massagetae in Central Asia; he'd already served as governor of northern Babylonia and briefly as co-ruler. His reign pivoted on a single campaign: the invasion of Egypt, where he crushed Pharaoh Psamtik III at the Battle of Pelusium in 525 BCE and pushed west into Cyrenaica along the Libyan coast. Seven years in, a revolt erupted in Persia and forced him to abandon Egypt in the spring of 522 BCE. Somewhere en route to Syria he took a thigh wound that turned gangrenous; three weeks later he died in Agbatana, childless. His younger brother Bardiya took the throne and held it briefly before Darius overthrew him and carried the empire forward.