Did Roman soldiers under General Lucius Cornelius Sulla use the world’s first machine gun in their siege to subdue the rebel city of Pompeii in 89 B.C.E? Italian researchers found evidence of deep ...

In 89 B.C.E., Pompeii was under siege. An invading army of tens of thousands of soldiers led by Lucius Cornelius Sulla, an influential commander and later dictator of Rome, stormed the town’s walls ...

LONG before Pompeii’s residents were killed by molten rock blasting from Mount Vesuvius they faced another fast-moving threat. Evidence of a lethal Roman weapon has been discovered that could be ...