Some time around 89 B.C.—the exact year is debated—Roman forces led by the general Lucius Cornelius Sulla laid siege to the city of Pompeii, likely in response to its residents’ agitation ...
Archaeologists in Denmark uncovered dozens of 1,500-year-old weapons, a rare chainmail shirt and other artifacts buried by an ...
AMMAN - Iconographic motifs help historians and archaeologists reconstruct the weaponry from the ancient period. One of such ...
The catapult was an ancient siege machine that could hurl heavy objects or shoot ... The Greek Dionysius the Elder of Syracuse, who was looking to develop a new type of weapon, invented the catapult ...
The articulated moveable siege ladder, usually referred to simply as the siege ladder, is one of a class of weapons used in offensive siege warfare. It is the simplest, and probably the oldest, of the ...