Came across a reference to the city of "Li-jien" in China and blue-eyed locals. Rumour has it that the city was built in the roman style by the remainder of Crassus' army as guards for the Chinese empire. Any proof out there or is it all an unsubstantiated rumour? What a topic for a book or movie!
2006-10-10 07:08:56 · 2 answers · asked by dunno 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
great question in fact history scholars are split down the middle on this fact. but i don't buy into it .the one that is leading the fight is is Homer Dubs, a professor of Chinese at Oxford University, they claim to have found a 2000 yr who is 5'11 skeleton but the chines won't let any body in to examine it plus i haven't seen any thing of roman weapons of the time like the javelin or their long shield or even the roman sword sorry forgot the name of it. plus both the
Romans and the chines were great at writing every thing down. why didn't we hear about this till almost 1995 ? plus after the battle of Carrhae most of them were split down the middle by the civil war and either sided with Cesar or Pompey so they didn't have time to settle down any ways but that's my take on this
PS BTW the way this is china and they have been known to make something up to bring in the crowds BTW again think of all the hostel tribes a roman would have to go through to get there see what I'm saying
2006-10-10 07:56:45 · answer #1 · answered by ryan s 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have heard of this and there are some very very old Chinese names that you could make a case for being latin based in sound.
2006-10-10 07:17:59 · answer #2 · answered by ts 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋