Roman Soldiers Likely Hit by Chemical Weapon

When archaeologists first found the bones of the 19 ancient Roman soldiers and one Persian buried under the ancient Syrian city of Dura-Europos in the 1930s, they assumed they’d died in some kind of fierce underground melee—when the Persians attacked the city, they’d dug tunnels under the walls. But…

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Roman Soldiers Likely Hit by Chemical Weapon

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