Legendary Lost Persian Army Found in Sahara

[JDR Dragoon]

Fine, as literature one can say, he wasn't trying to be an historian, he was just telling tales with pithy morals to them, preferably as marvelous as possible. But this is a new age tour guide telling the mob at the museum all about the magic crytals that cured his arthritis, and not --- history.

The problem is, that apart from much later biographes written about the main participants, he is one of our only preserved sources to the wars against Persia during the 490/480s BC.