Joe Rogan Reveals What Happened to Roman Soldiers in China that Disappeared

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00:00You want to hear something really fascinating? Sure. The 10,000 Roman soldiers that disappeared.

00:0553 BC, Marcus Crassus, he brought 48 to 50,000 soldiers to fight the Parthians. They got

00:11completely demolished and there was 10,000 elite legionnaires that survived this battle,

00:18but they never returned back to Rome. But what's crazy to this day, there is a small village in

00:25China. The people living in this village have features that resemble people from Italy.

00:30Chinese records during the Han dynasty, they talk about how the Chinese fought this group of

00:37pale soldiers and said that their formation was fish scale formation, the same formation that the

00:43Roman soldiers used to do. This was 20 years after these 10,000 Roman soldiers disappeared.

00:47Story is that they just, after this battle, they just decided to form their own legion,

00:53travel across the world, fought the Chinese and apparently established a village,

00:58lived out their days there.