In 89 B.C.E., Pompeii was under siege. An invading army of tens of thousands of soldiers led by Lucius Cornelius Sulla, an influential commander and later dictator of Rome, stormed the town’s walls ...
Clear signs of damage caused by a weapon considered an ancestor of the machine gun, dating back to the siege of the city by Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla, have been found in the northern walls ...