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To: blam
Thanks Blam. There's a Han court record which correctly refers to the emperor Marcus Aurelius in the context of an ambassador who arrived by sea (probably a trade delegation, or even independent trader). And from 1999...
Romans In China?
by Erling Hoh
This idea was first proposed by Homer Hasenphlug Dubs, an Oxford University professor of Chinese history, who speculated in 1955 that some of the 10,000 Roman prisoners taken by the Parthians after the battle of Carrhae in southeastern Turkey in 53 B.C. made their way east to Uzbekistan to enlist with Jzh Jzh against the Han. Chinese accounts of the battle, in which Jzh Jzh was decapitated and his army defeated, note unusual military formations and the use of wooden fortifications foreign to the nomadic Huns.
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9 posted on 04/08/2007 8:48:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Monday, April 2, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

that’s a curve ball.

i was not thinking about that tonight!


16 posted on 04/08/2007 9:39:24 PM PDT by ken21 (it takes a village to brainwash your child + to steal your property! /s)
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To: SunkenCiv
"Romans In China? by Erling Hoh "

I think this better explains the situation. Caucasians were there before the Chinese.

On The Presence Of Non-Chinese At Anyang

"This group is called "Proto-European" by Mair and Mallory, and it can be dated to have arrived in Xinjiang about 1800 B.C.E. or somewhat earlier. "

18 posted on 04/08/2007 10:08:43 PM PDT by blam
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38 posted on 03/26/2018 6:08:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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