The Army That Lost a Fortress to Cats 🐱 #Shorts #AncientEgypt #History

In 525 BC, an entire Egyptian army surrendered a fortress because of cats. 🐱

Persian king Cambyses II couldn’t break the walls of Pelusium. Then he remembered that Egyptians held cats sacred, and that harming one could be punished by death. He painted cats on his soldiers’ shields, drove real cats and other sacred animals to the front line, and the Egyptian archers refused to fire. Historians still debate whether this really happened, since the story was written down nearly 700 years later. Either way, it’s one of the strangest battles in ancient history.

Would you have taken the shot? Tell me in the comments. 👇

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Topics covered: Battle of Pelusium, Cambyses II, Persian invasion of Egypt, Psamtik III, goddess Bastet, sacred cats of ancient Egypt, ancient history legends.

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