Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet

https://www.science.org/content/article/shattered-skeleton-scottish-castle-first-confirmed-death-trebuchet

44 points · 4 comments · view on lemmy.world

4 Comments

AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 38d

I guess they’ll finally have to stop marketing them as “less-lethal” weapons.

Jerb322@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 38d

First confirmed yeet?

Doorknob@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 37d

To be the bearer of some slightly disappointing news: the article makes clear in the end that evidence points to the man having been killed by a thing launched from a trebuchet, not that he himself was the thing launched from a trebuchet.

Underbroen@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 37d

Love the headline! So the trebuchet catapulted ahead of Da Vinci's siege crossbow?