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

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

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 ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence that a weapon known as the polybolos—or multi-thrower—was used during the Roman conquest ...

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

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

Few weapons have defined the tempo of modern warfare quite like the machine gun. It isn’t a new concept by any means, with the notion of rapid fire volleys being something dating back to the Age of ...