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A Medieval Man's Injuries Turned Out to Be the Work of an English Trebuchet

via Smithsonian Magazine·Aug 14·2 sources

An archaeologist who thought a medieval skeleton showed injuries like a modern car crash victim traced them instead to a trebuchet strike. The reconstruction gives a rare forensic look at siege warfare.

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Ars Technica

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