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Old 04-28-2008, 17:12 PM   #50 (permalink)
IDonT
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Triple C,

There are many people who hypothesized as to what happened to the Roman prisoners at Carrhae. One thought was that they were employed as mercenaries to a Xiongnu warlord called ZhiZhi. This warlord, along with the ex Roman soldiers, were later defeated in a siege by Han Chinese troops around 36 BC.

The two main arguments are the ones I highlighted.

1.) The troops employed the "fish scale formation" a formation that could be the testudo.

2.) The double wooden stockade, a common Roman field fortification.

As usual there is no way to prove it.
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