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 ...

The Trebuchet was invented by Mariano Taccola, "the Sienese Archimedes." This war machine was invented during the Middle Ages (around 1400 AD) in order to destroy the great walls of the enemy palaces.

From the June 1992 issue of Car and Driver. From a hillside on his 600-acre farm in England, a middle-aged man named Hew Kennedy surveys the scene. Word of a hurling has gotten around, and a small ...

Israeli soldiers used a trebuchet to throw incendiaries near the Lebanese border, a video appears to show. The Israeli military stated this was a local initiative, not a widespread tool, per local ...