The Romans Had a Weapon We Still Can’t Explain

Join my Substack, where the ideas go further than YouTube lets me take them: https://michaelbutton.substack.com/ For 500 years, the Byzantine Romans guarded the secret of Greek Fire, a weapon capable of setting the sea itself ablaze. But its real power wasn’t just the flames. It was the fact that nobody else could figure out how to make it. This is the story of one of history’s most closely guarded weapons, how it helped keep an empire alive, and why its secret eventually disappeared forever... Follow the show on Spotify! 👉 https://open.spotify.com/show/7GlXSYMoOpcw41YGRCpjJB?si=cc2e479ee34d4167 Let me know what you think in the comments, and thank you for watching!! Follow me on X: https://x.com/MichaelButtonX Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelbuttonx/ Sources: https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/maritime-history/greek-fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(674%E2%80%93678) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire#/media/File:Greekfire-madridskylitzes1.jpg https://www.britannica.com/place/Byzantine-Empire https://www.worldhistory.org/image/15330/map-of-the-byzantine-empire-c520---1204/ https://shadowsofconstantinople.com/population-of-constantinople/ https://www.the-map-as-history.com/origins-of-islam-and-the-arabo-muslim-empire/the-arab-conquests-634-751 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%E2%80%93Byzantine_wars https://thehistorianshut.com/2024/07/10/mysterious-kallinikos-of-heliopolis-the-creator-of-greek-fire/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophanes_the_Confessor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tours https://spokenpast.com/articles/what-was-greek-fire-and-how-was-it-used/ https://www.abebooks.co.uk/first-edition/History-Greek-Fire-Gunpowder-Partington-James/3311877212/bd https://www.medievalware.com/blog/greek-fire-byzantine-medieval-flamethrower/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_VII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Administrando_Imperio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rus%27%E2%80%93Byzantine_War_(941%E2%80%93944) https://www.worldhistory.org/Greek_Fire/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mesembria https://shadowsofconstantinople.com/greek-fire-byzantine-roman-weapon/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Komnene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Constantinople https://polsci.institute/international-relations/us-nuclear-monopoly-post-war-secrecy-control/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_aircraft https://www.britannica.com/place/Bletchley-Park https://bletchleypark.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ABOUT-BLETCHLEY-PARK.pdf https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-gb/cybersecurity-101/cyberattacks/zero-day-exploit/ https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-worlds-most-complex-machine/