Evidence for Rome establishing relations/ contact with China

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If anyone wanted to take a look and give us the low down on the meeting, it'd be much appreciated :wink:

In the article "An Ancient Military Contact between Romans and Chinese" the author, Homer Dubs, describes a border action by the Han Chinese in Central Asia where the Chinese army was involved in rearranging client kingdoms in the first century BC.

Based on a description of a painting in which a contingent of soldiers fights in an odd formation resembling that of the legionary testudo, Dubs draws a tenuous link between these presumed foreign mercenaries and the relocated Roman captives from the battle of Carrhae. An interesting, if somewhat far-fetched, theory.

Dubs expands and elaborates on the fate of these "lost soldiers" in the article "A Roman Influence Upon Chinese Painting." If anyone would like read these, PM me and I will email the PDFs.