Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In 525 BCE, according to Herodotus, the Persian king Cambyses II assembled an army of 50,000 men to march across the Egyptian desert to subjugate the priests of Amun.In her futuristic time travel novel And the Rest is History, Jodi Taylor places her protagonist Max and a companion perched among boulders in the western desert to witness the army's march toward the Siwa Oasis.Max spies a "dark yellow murky cloud" where the horizon had been and hopes that it is dust "kicked up by a marching army rather than the beginnings of a sandstorm." 1 No such luck. Nugent Windblown DustThe Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles 2024;12(53):80-82 line of that novel is "They would rise and fall and, in their falling, rise again.
Author: Connie Nugent
Language: English
Subfield: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4403783206