Can you imagine having a jar full of scorpions dropped on you?
Scholars suspect that a small desert kingdom used ceramic bombs filled with venomous insects or scorpions to ward off the Roman Empire roughly 1,800 years ago in present day Iraq.
Learn more about poisons in history or the venom of scorpions in The Power of Poison, open through September 4 at Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
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