Legion of the Amned ; Theywere the Roman Empire's Most Fearsome Warriors, Sent to Smash Britain Into Submission. Yet As Two Films Vie to Tell Their Story, a Haunting Mystery Remains: Howdid the 6,000 Men of the Ninth Legion Vanish Into Thin Air -- And Were They the Victims of Boudicca's Dying Curse? [Scot Region]

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OVER the course of its majestic, turbulent and bloody 1,000-year history, Ancient Rome gave rise to many extraordinary stories which live on to this day.

Tales filled with unforgettable, largerthan-life characters who, whether heroes or villains, seem -- like Shakespeare's brilliant, but fatally ambitious Caesar -- to 'bestride the narrow world like a Colossus, and we petty men walk under his huge legs, and peep about ...'

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Legion of the Amned ; Theywere the Roman Empire's Most Fearsome Warriors, Sent to Smash Britain Into Submission. Yet As Two Films Vie to Tell Their Story, a Haunting Mystery Remains: Howdid the 6,000 Men of the Ninth Legion Vanish Into Thin Air -- And Were They the Victims of Boudicca's Dying Curse? [Scot Region]

No wonder Hollywood has always loved Rome, whose ferocity, passion and sheer spectacle have given rise to great epic movies from Ben-Hur to Gladiator.

Yet the latest movies inspired by the barbarous magnificence of the ancient world comes not from the heart of Rome but from what was then a remote northern province on the edge of the Empire and an ancient legend that continues to haunt the imagination. A province we now call Scotland, but which the Romans knew as Caledonia. Both films (still in production) concern the Roman Ninth Legion and the bizarre fate that befell them in the mists of the Highlands around A...

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