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...antiquity rarely matched the heroism of its myths - it was ugly, nasty and desperate. To stave off a Roman siege in A.D. 189, the defenders of the Greek city of Ambracia built a complex flamethrower that coughed out smoking chicken feathers. At Themiscrya, another stubborn Greek outpost, Romans tunneling beneath the city contended with not only a charge of wild beasts but also a barrage of hives swarming with bees - a rather direct approach to biological warfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Chemical Warfare Is Ancient History | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

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