Even bigger map?!

[bobbin]

Yeah its from the Independent which is one of the major newspapers here in the UK, its quite surprising such an article made it in as I always though they were quite good, the writer has got things so wrong it makes me worry about the accuracy of reports on topics I'm less knowledgable about.

Wasn't there that story about some Romans captured at Carrhae ending up somewhere in China?

I heard that one too, supposedly something about a Chinese chronicle mentioning some captured foreign soldiers that fought in "fish scale formation" which is beleived by some to be a reference to the roman testudo.