Ancient Roman forces may have used the polybolos to quell a rebellion at Pompeii in 89 B.C.E. The unique weapon was likely ...

In 89 BCE, Rome dispatched forces under the command of general Lucius Cornelius Sulla to lay siege to the city. It was one of ...

LONG before Pompeii’s residents were killed by molten rock blasting from Mount Vesuvius they faced another fast-moving threat ...

Long before Pompeii was covered in ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, the people of the doomed city were confronting a threat of a very different kind.

Before Pompeii was engulfed in volcanic ash, its walls may have been battered by an ancient "machine gun" while the city was under siege. A study has uncovered compelling evidence that Roman forces ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have uncovered evidence that a weapon known as the polybolos—or multi-thrower—was used during the Roman conquest of ...

Photograph of the presumed arrow marks by a polybolos in the northern wall of Pompeii. Credit: A. Rossi et al. A team of Italian researchers has discovered markings on the walls of Pompeii that could ...

The ruins of Pompeii continue to reshape history, this time shedding light on the military technology of the ancient world. A team from the University of Campania in Italy, led by researcher Adriana ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rendering of a reconstructed polybolos within a virtual environment derived from reality-based documentation of the city walls.

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