THE SIEGE OF DURA-EUROPOS 256: How Romans Withstood Persia on the Eastern Frontier скачать в хорошем качестве

THE SIEGE OF DURA-EUROPOS 256: How Romans Withstood Persia on the Eastern Frontier

On a day in two hundred fifty-six AD, twenty Roman soldiers crawled through darkness on a counter-mining operation to intercept a Persian tunnel beneath the Syrian desert. Within seconds of breaking through, they were dead—asphyxiated by sulfur dioxide gas in history's first documented chemical attack. We know this not from ancient chronicles—none exist—but from forensic archaeology: their bodies, found exactly where they fell in the nineteen thirties, analyzed in twenty-eleven by Dr. Simon James, who reconstructed the chemical mechanism from tunnel geometry and residue traces. Source: https://readingroo.ms/5/9/1/3/59134/5...