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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers have uncovered evidence that a weapon known as the polybolos—or multi-thrower—was used during the Roman conquest of Pompeii. Originally ...