Recently uncovered damage to walls in Pompeii displays patterns that may have been made by an ancient “machine gun” called a ...

Astonishing evidence for an ancient form of sophisticated machining into very hard stone can be seen on one of the artifacts found on the Ancient Egyptian site of Elephantine Island. After several ...

Before Pompeii was engulfed in volcanic ash, its walls may have been battered by an ancient "machine gun" while the city was under siege. With a third of Pompeii still buried beneath volcanic debris ...

In 89 B.C.E., Pompeii was under siege. An invading army of tens of thousands of soldiers led by Lucius Cornelius Sulla, an ...