Ancient Discoveries

Ancient Discoveries - Season 6 Episode 2 Guns n' Ammo

2009-12-28 60 minutes.
9.00 6 votes

Season - Episode

6 Season 6 Nov 05, 2009
5 Season 5 Oct 23, 2008
4 Season 4 Jan 28, 2008
3 Season 3 Jan 23, 2007
2 Season 2 Aug 21, 2005
1 Season 1 Dec 21, 2003

Overview

Some of the strangest and deadliest weapons ever built were prototypes of the modern gun. ANCIENT DISCOVERIES finds out whether a simple bamboo tube could have been the world's first gun. Hidden in an ancient manuscript lays a secret recipe for ancient tracer fire, but does it really work? How far and how high could the mega-mortar "Roaring Meg" have fired its shots to take out a Royalist stronghold? Can a team of experts discover the truth behind the bizarre battlefield phenomena of “wind of the cannonball,” when men were seen to drop dead without apparently having been touched by a shot? And did a nine-barreled medieval volleygun mark the birth of the modern machine gun?

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Language English, German