What Happened to Rome’s Other Lost Legion?
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Загружено: 2025-09-12
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The mysterious disappearance of Legio XXII Deiotariana remains one of the Roman Empire’s most puzzling cold cases. Stationed for generations in Egypt and active across the eastern Mediterranean, the Twenty-Second quietly vanishes from the military rolls in the 2nd century AD — no triumph, no burial inscriptions, no clear final campaign. Scholars have proposed competing explanations: annihilation during the Bar Kokhba Revolt or Kitos War, destruction in Parthian or Arabian campaigns, catastrophic disease, or even deliberate erasure from the records as an act of damnatio memoriae (political censorship).
In this video we weigh the evidence: archaeological clues, papyrus records from Egypt, Roman administrative behavior, and why silence itself can be a clue. Was the legion crushed in a brutal frontier war? Lost to plague or flood? Or was its name struck from history to hide imperial embarrassment? Join us as we examine the primary theories, separate likely facts from speculation, and explore what the Twenty-Second’s disappearance reveals about Rome’s limits and secrets.
➡️ Watch the full deep-dive for maps, primary-source quotes, and the most compelling arguments from modern historians. Drop your theory below — I’ll be reading every comment.
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