Year 38 a.C. - Gobi Desert
At the sight of the stream, the men had stripped themselves of their helmets, armor and clothing, and had entered naked into the murky waters. Since they had descended from the mountain range controlled by the Chinese the two Roman cohorts of five centuries each had entered a moor of stones that progressively transformed into a desert. The century commanded by the centurion Flavius Tullius headed the painful march. For more than a month the only available water came from brackish and shallow wells so the liquid had always been scarce.
One day, after a suffocating morning, a sandstorm had unleashed covering literally the sky and preventing every man from seeing his own hands and feet. The legionaries had marched in this way for hours until they reached a few roc
