Cambyses II
The second Achaemenid emperor (530–522 BC)
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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.
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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…
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