Who I Inaros?

“Inaros did more damage to the Persians than any man before him.”

Herodotus (The Histories- Book Four).

Inaros or Ienheru, also known as Inarus (460 BC).

The son of a Libyan prince named Pasmtik.

Inaros lead a revolt against the Persian rulers in Egypt, defeated the mighty Persian army and forced it to retreat to Memphis in Egypt.

Before the revolution, Inaros was the Prince of the Libyan migrants coming from Libya living around Mariot Lake and part of the Nile Delta in Egypt. With the help of Eminrot, he ignited the fire of a revolt against the Persians in those areas. The revolt extended to other parts of Egypt during the reign of the Persian King Artaxerexes I.  Inaros allied with the Athenians who sent troops and an army of more than 200 ships from Athens lead by Archimedes to fight the Persians.  Fierce wars broke out, on the land and in the sea, of which the result was the overwhelming defeat of the Persian army at the hands of Inaros as well as the  death of its leader whose corpus was sent to his brother, King of Persia.

But the victory was short lived. Within a few short years of this victory, and after sending huge army from Persia to Egypt, Archimedes was killed and Inaros was wounded in the thigh by the Persian force and retreated to Byblus,  his stronghold and the only Egyptian city that did not submit to the Persians.  After fighting for a year and a half in the marshes, Inaros, together with the Greeks, were taken captive away to Susa where he was crucified.