Rome’s Deadliest Artillery Machine | How powerful was Ballista?

Rome’s Deadliest Artillery Machine | How powerful was Ballista?===Rome’s Deadliest Artillery Machine | How powerful was Ballista? It hurled iron bolts silently across the battlefield—without warning. Its projectiles could pierce two men, their shields… and even the wall behind them. And yet, most people today don’t even know its name.This was the Roman ballista—a weapon so precise, so terrifying, that it shaped the battlefield for centuries.Rome’s Deadliest Artillery Machine | How powerful was Ballista? Welcome to your daily history channel Great History EN—where we bring you incredible stories of ancient warfare, every single day. We’re proud to be part of a growing community of history lovers, and if you're new here, hit that subscribe button and help us reach 40,000 subscribers, so we can keep sharing epic battle stories every single day.So…What made this machine so advanced?Why was it feared by enemies and revered by engineers?And how did it vanish from history—when so few people today know it helped shape the weapons we still use?Let’s find out.Rome’s Deadliest Artillery Machine | How powerful was Ballista? Where did the ballista come from?Though perfected by Roman engineers, the ballista's story began centuries earlier in the intellectual crucible of classical Greece, in the workshops and laboratories of Hellenistic science. Before it became a weapon of empire, it was a device of innovation.The earliest ancestor of the ballista was a curious contraption known as the gastraphetes, or “belly-bow.” Invented in the 5th century BC and described later by Heron of Alexandria, the gastraphetes functioned like an oversized crossbow. It was cocked by pressing it against the stomach and allowed the operator to launch bolts farther and with more power than a traditional bow. Crude by later standards, it was the first step toward something revolutionary: storing mechanical energy not in the limbs of a bow, but in tensioned devices designed for force multiplication.===#greathistoryen #greathistoryenchannel #battlehistory #battleof #rome #ballista