Greek Fire | This weapon saved an Empire!

Greek fire was an ancient weapon used by the Byzantine empire. It was the equivalent to modern day napalm. The Byzantine people used this 7th-century arsenal to repel Arab invasion for years, particularly at sea. While Greek fire wasn’t the first incendiary weapon, it was arguably the most historically significant ancient weapon. What’s truly fascinating about this weapon, Greek fire is that armies who captured the liquid concoction were unable to recreate it for themselves. They also failed to recreate the machine that delivered it. To this day, nobody knows exactly what ingredients went into the mixture.
It was also called “sea fire” and “liquid fire” by the Byzantines themselves, it was heated, pressurized, and then shot out via a tube called a siphon. Greek fire was mostly used to light enemy ships on fire the weapon from a safe distance.