Roberto Spampinato Multimedia Journalist

The gost Legion of Licinius Crassus

The soldiers of a ghost Legion, disappeared after an expedition, founded the only Roman center in China, the city of Liquian, archaeological site of the eastern province of Gansu. The legion disappeared was in command of Licinius Crassus, triumvir like Caesar and Pompeo, who started a campaign against the Parthians in Turkey during which his army was defeated and he himself was beheaded. Plinio says that survivors fell and all prisoners were transferred by the Parthians in a region to the north of Afghanistan. However, when the Romans in 20 BC and parts made peace and agreed to the return of the prisoners, survivors of the ill-fated legion had vanished. At the mystery would give answer Bau Gau, a reporter Han Empire (206-220 AD). According Bau Gau those same prisoners were defeated by a Chinese leader in 36 AC. These "foreigners" were deported to China to defend the strategic eastern province of Gansu. And 'here that the survivors of the legion founded Liquian, name by which China still shows the Roman world.