Wild fire! Just ask the Onion Knight!
Very interesting. I think that in the next decade or so, with the aid of AI, we will know the formula. It took decades to figure out Roman concrete that not only doesn’t deteriorate, but it self-repairs. Our ancestors were a lot smarter than we credit them with being.
One quibble: near the end of the article it said, “From the 7th century until the Fall of Constantinople on May 29, 1453, this Byzantine weapon was significant in protecting the Greek empire.” The Empire wasn’t Greek, even if Greek was its primary language - it was Roman.
I always figured it was something like potassium which has a very strong reaction in water.
Written about in Jihad in the West, Paul Fregosi.
just sounds like oil to me
Interesting article!
Sounds a lot like napalm. Easy to make.
“According to some historians, it was Greek fire that had kept the Byzantine Empire protected from invaders for centuries, subsequently saving the whole of Western civilization.”
...and for what, to elect a bunch of women leaders who, literally, INVITED THEM IN anyway.