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

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 ...

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

Clear signs of damage caused by a weapon considered an ancestor of the machine gun, dating back to the siege of the city by ...