The trebuchet was the most fearsome weapon of medieval times, a giant catapult that could lay waste to any fortress by battering its walls with boulders. It’s funny to think, then, that in terms of ...

Advanced Placement Physics students at West Feliciana High School recently investigated how warriors in the Middle Ages used counterweight trebuchets to fling projectiles long distances. Trebuchets ...

HUGO, Minn. - In 2009, four 13-year-olds in the bodies of 30-something men built a medieval siege engine in the back yard of a suburban single-family home. The result: bowling balls, old television ...

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It’s not a catapult, it’s a trebuchet, explains Sam Arendec. Yeah, we know. We’ve been corrected by Arendec, his wife, and a representative of the Baycrafters Renaissance Fantasy Fayre, where Arendec ...