During a medieval siege, a trebuchet scored a chance hit on an unlucky defender. A small boulder slammed into his upper back ...

Extensive research into a 700-year-old skeleton in Scotland has resulted in what an expert calls the first confirmed evidence ...

Forget swords, arrows, and getting dramatically thrown from a castle wall. Scientists may have identified something much more ...

This video explains what it took to become a trebuchet operator in the medieval period. It covers the history of trebuchets, ...

After more than 700 years, researchers have solved the macabre mystery of a medieval man who was killed in brutal fashion at ...

A skeleton uncovered beneath Scotland’s Stirling Castle may be the first confirmed archaeological evidence of a person killed ...

Archaeologists have identified the shattered remains of a 14th-century man whose 160 bone fractures appear to be the first ...

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Trebuchet memes are here. Yep, that’s right, pick your jaw up off the floor: memes about the medieval siege engine known as the trebuchet (pronounced “treh-byoo-shay”), a device capable of flinging 90 ...

As awesome as trebuchets are, the fact that medieval engineers didn’t create versions capable of launching supersonic projectiles is a bit of a bummer. Fortunately it’s possible to correct this ...