daniel 73f4b574df Battle of Gaugamela: fix duplicate title, enrich with Iranica/Badian scholarship ...

- Remove duplicate # heading
- Add astronomical diary confirmation of date (Sachs & Hunger 1988)
- Clarify location uncertainty (Jomel River east of Mosul)
- Add Mazaeus as Persian right commander; surrendered Babylon, appointed satrap
- Add lunar eclipse omen (20 September)
- Add Persian sarissae detail (Diodorus 17.53.1)
- Clarify ancient troop numbers are unreliable per modern scholarship
- Add Persepolis capture date (January 330 BCE)
- Add [^3] Encyclopaedia Iranica / Bosworth as new reference
- Remove answered review queue (applied manually)

2026-02-23 00:04:52 +00:00

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