Long before Pompeii was covered in ash and pumice during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, the people of the doomed ...

The ancient city of Pompeii is one of those archaeological sites that keeps on giving with one discovery after another. While ...

Learn how a Roman polybolos unleashed rapid-fire projectiles during the siege of Pompeii.

In 89 BCE, when the residents of Pompeii rebelled against Rome, the Empire pulled no punches in its attempts to quell the ...

Ancient Greek polybolos machine gun is one of the most fascinating warfare inventions in antiquity, shooting and reloading multiple bolts.

Researchers have been left stunned after discovering Romans used what has been described as an "ancient machine gun" to ...