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TIL In 256 AD 20 Roman soldiers died trying to defend an underground tunnel during the siege of Dura-Europos after the attackers launched a chemical attack using a concoction of sulphur. The site, discovered intact in the 1930's, offers the earliest physical remnants of chemical warfare

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