New study suggests Pompeii siege damage may reveal use of an ancient rapid-fire weapon, reshaping views of Roman warfare.

Mysterious damage patterns on a 2,000-year-old fortress are rewriting what we know about Roman firepower. If the ancient ...

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.

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

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 ...