One Family Guarded This Weapon's Secret for Centuries

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[00:00:02]The Byzantine Empire had a weapon that burned on water. Armies who faced it thought it was sorcery. One, Greek fire appeared in 672 AD. It clung to ships, to men, [music] to the water itself. Water could not put it out. Two, enemies tried to copy it for a century. None succeeded. The formula was known only to one family, never written down.

[00:00:28]Three, the formula died with the empire.

[00:00:32]Chemists and historians still cannot [music] agree on what it contained. The most feared weapon in medieval warfare was lost because no one was allowed to record it. Subscribe for more.