For those of you who would like an official announcement to which to link, the SCA's official statement regarding the alleged discovery of the Lost Army of Cambyses is now available on Zahi Hawass's site at the above page.
The statement seems to have confused the discovery of the "lost army" remains (whatever they turn out to be) which were found just south of Siwa with the location of Berenike Panchrysos (not to be confused with Berenice Troglodytica) which in his discussion of Eastern Desert Ware Hans Barnard says has been tentatively identified with Daraheib. I also cannot work out the connection with Dr Paolo Gallo who I thought was working on an island off the coast of Alexandria.
I daresay that all will be revealed eventually!
The statement seems to have confused the discovery of the "lost army" remains (whatever they turn out to be) which were found just south of Siwa with the location of Berenike Panchrysos (not to be confused with Berenice Troglodytica) which in his discussion of Eastern Desert Ware Hans Barnard says has been tentatively identified with Daraheib. I also cannot work out the connection with Dr Paolo Gallo who I thought was working on an island off the coast of Alexandria.
I daresay that all will be revealed eventually!
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From "Encyclopedia of the archaeology of ancient Egypt" by Kathryn A. Bard,Steven Blake Shubert:
"Berenike Panchrysos is an ancient town in the Nubian Desert which was located in February 1989 by asn expedition to the Wadi Allaqi led by Alfredo and Angelo Castiglioni and Giancarlo Negro."
http://books.google.it/books?id=XNdgScxtirYC&pg=PA172&dq=berenike+Panchrysos+nubian+desert&ei=9YL9SqjvBI-uzASm2YDeDg&client=firefox-a#v=onepage&q=berenike%20Panchrysos%20nubian%20desert&f=false
Excellent - thanks a lot for the information!
Best
Andie
In fact, Dr Paolo Gallo worked in Bahrein some years ago and discovered the ruins of a temple in this depression.
In any case he don't had any relations with the Castiglioni's research of the Cambyses' Lost Army.
In similar way there is absolutely no relations between Berenike Panchrysos in the Nubian Desert of Sudan with Barhein in Egypt!
The Hawass' statment about is indeed very strange...
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