Would the Classical Romans have had the means to create something like the Dardanelles gun?

Everything I've heard around here suggests that the metalwork would be a far bigger stumbling block than gunpowder itself. The Chinese themselves invented gunpowder centuries before they had siege guns of that size.

As for Europe, there were major advances in metallurgy during the Middle Ages, a lot of it surrounding the casting of church bells, from what I understand. Those were necessary intermediate steps to being able to create a gun barrel that wouldn't burst from the explosive force of the blast.
 
I honestly dont think so. As I understand it, the medieval era was an extremely important period in terms of the development of metallurgy and the refining of steel. 700 years of that, plus the renaissance seeing the refinement of techniques required to make better gunpowder weapons (because they knew what they were designing for), and finally after that 1 and a half thousand years, you get the dardanelles gun.
 
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