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  • > indicates horrific demise

    If I go, I would like to go from massive blunt trauma from behind that renders me instantly unconscious.

    by petesergeant
  • “The breaks indicate a very large area of impact and devastation,” she says. “It’s likely the individual was killed by a siege engine.”

    So it’s likely, which means it’s not confirmed as the headline implies.

    by nexus6
  • More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331555
    by Georgelemental
  • "...uncovered the graves of nine skeletons dated to the early 1300s. Five, including Skeleton 150, dated to the 1300s."

    That seems like a contradiction.

    by Levitating
  • Interesting find! I wonder if the massive damage could also be explained by the falling wall (documented in the article).
    by JoeAltmaier
  • But have they identified the trebuchet that killed him?

    We can rule out Warwolf [1] my favorite trebuchet, which never killed anyone.

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwolf

    by cobbzilla
  • > 14th century

    While this death may be the first confirmed from a trebuchet, is that really the first death by a trebuchet? Plus, I'd say catapults are almost identical to a trebuchet in workings, for the most part. I don't quite believe that this was really the first death by catapult.

    by shevy-java
  • Trebuchets were used in the Syrian civil war (2011-2024).

    I would link a video but I don't think that is a wise idea for legal reasons. There were so many parties in that war and I'm not sure which ones were declared terrorist organizations.

    by CTDOCodebases

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