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der Standard DEResearchers have investigated eye-catching holes in the city wall. They are likely to come from bullets from a polybolos that fired with an astounding mechanism.
The walls of Pompeii keep more than the memory of Vesuvius: quadrangular holes from 89 BC.
Romans used "an ancient machine gun" to attack Pompeii
Ancient Roman armies are known for their power and efficiency, but new research suggests that the Romans may have had even more sophisticated weapon systems than previously thought. According to Italian researchers, who reported their findings in a science publication Heritage, tell us that circular damage found on the walls of Pompeii very likely came from a so-called "polybolos", a Greek-derived repeating catapult. This is what the researcher…
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