He pointed to a siege in 1409 of a fortress in ... “the need for safer recipes that did not put medieval gunners at risk or cause damage to cannons.” At the same time, the newest guns got ...

wrote about ancient and medieval artillery and devoted a chapter of his 1907 The Projectile Throwing Engines of the Ancients to the trebuchet, a catapult-like siege engine used to launch heavy stones ...

A legend begun in the Medieval Ages tells ... A research paper on the siege towers was presented alongside Rossi's recent work entitled "Archimedes' Cannons against the Roman Fleet?" ...

there is no doubt that they are connected with the siege [and conquest of the Zishtova Fortress] by Vlad Dracula in 1461." Culverins are medieval cannons and Ovcharov believes these were most ...

Charles Hanson, the owner of Hansons Auctineers, holding the 600-year-old medieval hand cannon dating back to circa 1400, which was mistaken for a piece of metal. Hansons / SWNS A cylindrical ...

Workers and archaeologists found eight “giant” stones used as catapult ammunition during a medieval siege on a castle in the UK, photos show. Photo from English Heritage Underneath the ...

Languages: English, Spanish A set of medieval catapult projectiles used in a 13th-century siege that lasted almost half a year have been discovered. The eight, perfectly preserved catapult shots ...