10-30-2006, 01:59 AM
Ave Civitas,
I just read the posts on Roman-Chinese contact.
N.H.H. Sitwell has a book "The world the Romans knew" and in his section of China (Chapter 9) he speaks of the Parthians settling some of the survivors of Carrahae in Merv. (450 miles east of the Caspian - and still a long-long way from China). It is a book in my "To be read yet" pile, so I have not digested it.
He also wrote of the possibility of Roman trade ports in South East Asia.
Has anyone read any about the trade centers. Who really settled there, etc. It might help explain Sussana's coins.
Tom
I just read the posts on Roman-Chinese contact.
N.H.H. Sitwell has a book "The world the Romans knew" and in his section of China (Chapter 9) he speaks of the Parthians settling some of the survivors of Carrahae in Merv. (450 miles east of the Caspian - and still a long-long way from China). It is a book in my "To be read yet" pile, so I have not digested it.
He also wrote of the possibility of Roman trade ports in South East Asia.
Has anyone read any about the trade centers. Who really settled there, etc. It might help explain Sussana's coins.
Tom
AKA Tom Chelmowski
Historiae Eruditere (if that is proper Latin)
Historiae Eruditere (if that is proper Latin)
