Chemical Warfare
Syria has been battling with chemical warfare over the last decade, but did you know that chemical warfare was used in ancient Syria too? 19 Roman soldiers and 1 Persian soldier died from inhalation of a poisonous gas during a Persian siege in 256 AD. Archaeological digs found the bodies from that fateful battle. The gas became poisonous when the Persian army burned sulfur and bitumen crystals in a tunnel that was being used by the Roman soldiers to attack the Persian city. The 19 Romans suffocated and died.
Chemical Warfare
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