Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 89 B.C.E., Pompeii was under siege. An invading army of tens of thousands of soldiers led by Lucius Cornelius Sulla, an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have uncovered evidence that a weapon known as the polybolos—or multi-thrower—was used during the Roman conquest of ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. Mysterious damage patterns on a 2,000-year-old fortress are rewriting what we know about Roman firepower. If the ancient world had its own version of ...