After the Last Inscription: Searching for Legio IX Hispana
Vanished Into Myth: The Greatest Unsolved Cold Case of Ancient Rome Welcome to The Lost Epoch. Five thousand soldiers, one golden eagle, and a silence that has lasted two thousand years. In the early second century AD, one of the most battle-hardened formations in the Roman military machine—five thousand heavily armored legionaries—marched north past the frontier of Eboracum (modern York) into the swirling mists of Caledonia. They were never seen again. Their vanishing left such a wound on the Roman psyche that Emperor Hadrian traveled in person to Britain to build a stone wall sealing the…
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