The Persian Chemical Weapon
We thought that chemical warfare was an invention of our time, but really it isn’t. In ancient Syria, during a Persian siege by the Romans in 256 AD, the Persian army burned sulfur and bitumen crystals to flush out and eventually suffocate the Roman soldiers using a tunnel to attack the Persians. 19 Roman soldiers suffered from the gas and died from suffocation. Archaeologists only dug up these bodies recently.
The Persian Chemical Weapon
The Jesus Boat
Two Israeli brothers who were keen and amateur archaeologists pounced upon the opportunity to do some digging during a drought affecting the Sea of Galilee in Israel. What they found was a boat sumberged in the mud which dated back to the 1st Century. They quickly called authorities who spent 12 days working speedily to recover the boat before the tide returned. Although the majority of historians agree that it was not Jesus’ boat, they all agree that it was a fisherman’s boat from that time.
The Jesus Boat
