Did Roman Soldiers COMMIT GENOCIDE Against 50,000 Parthian Harem Virgins After Carrhae?

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Revenge doesn't end empires—it erases them, one captive at a time. When Marcus Licinius Crassus, Rome's richest man, crossed the Euphrates in spring with forty thousand legions seeking Parthian gold, he unleashed a machine of retribution that wouldn't stop at Carrhae's bloody sands. Twenty thousand Romans fell under Surena's arrows that day, including Crassus's son Publius, his severed head paraded on Parthian lances. But what came after the battle carved deeper wounds.
King Orodes II didn't just defeat Rome—he dismantled it systematically. Ancient Parthian tablets unearthed by archaeologist Gertrude Bell in 1920 near Ctesiphon revealed the cold arithmetic: fifty thousand souls, primarily royal women and captives, tallied like tribute in bureaucratic ledgers. This wasn't conquest—it was accounting. Parthian horse archers and ironclad cataphracts enforced a system where bodies became currency, silks stripped away, bloodlines bartered across the Euphrates. The Republic's spine cracked, triumvirates fractured, and maps redrawn in blood.
These ancient grudges mirror modern conflicts where collateral damage fills spreadsheets and women vanish into metrics. Carrhae teaches us that unchecked revenge always claims the voiceless first.
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