The decisive Battle of Pelusium (525 BC) which transferred the throne of the Pharaohs to Cambyses II, king of the Persians, was fought near Pelusium. The fields around were strewn with the bones of the combatants when Herodotus visited.

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Description: A map of Egypt at the time of the Persian conquest by Cambyses (525 BC) at the end of the Twenty–Sixth Dynasty under Psamtik III. The map shows the delta city of Pelusium and the lower capital of Moph (Memphis) conquered by Cambyses.

The year 525 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 229 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 525 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

It was fought in 525 BC near Pelusium, an important city in the eastern extremes of Egypt's Nile Delta, 30 km to the south-east of the modern Port Said. The battle was preceded and followed by sieges at Gaza and Memphis .

Description: A map of Persia at the time of Cyrus the Great, showing the greatest extent of the Persian Empire in 525 BC. The map shows the empire extending from Thrace in Europe and the North African coast across Asia to the Indus River.

This map reveals the expansion of the Persian Empire from Cyrus the Great to Darius I, 550-486 BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire was actually the last great empire of the ancient Near East. Its boundaries extended from the Aegean Sea in the west to the Indus River in the east, such a large empire was created in just a little over 10 years by ...

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Persian Empire at its Greatest Extent, 525 BC. Ernest Rhys, Ed., A Literary and Historical Atlas of Asia(New York, NY: E.P. Dutton & CO., 1912) Downloaded from Maps ETC, on the web at …

Cambyses II (530-522 BC) Later in 525 BC the son of Cyrus whose name was Cambyses came southward with the mighty Persian army and conquered Egypt in 529 BC, and he laid siege to several Egyptian cities including Memphis. His army marched all the way to the Mediterranean Sea and Libya surrendered to him.