The Roman legionaries who pushed into Arabia all the way to Mada’in Salih
LONDON: Anyone who has watched the 2000 movie “Gladiator” will have a vivid, if not necessarily wholly accurate, idea about what life must have been like for the legendary legionaries who imposed Rome’s will upon much of the Mediterranean and beyond for half a millennium. In the movie, Russell Crowe plays Maximus Decimus Meridius, a … Read more