FIRE LANCES AND CANNONS
May 08, 2020
1 minute
—ERIC A. POWELL
n the ruins of Xanadu, the summer capital of the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan (r. A.D. 1260-1294), Chinese archaeologists unearthed one of the world’s world’s earliest surviving guns. Measuring just 14 inches long, the bronze hand cannon was stamped
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