"What are you going to do, lob a stone at me from 300m away?" shouted the man on the parapet, moments before impact.

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.

“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.

"...uncovered the graves of nine skeletons dated to the early 1300s. Five, including Skeleton 150, dated to the 1300s."

That seems like a contradiction.

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

Interesting find! I wonder if the massive damage could also be explained by the falling wall (documented in the article).

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331555

Hope he died quickly, instead of having to deal with the pain of multiple bones crushing

Our modern weapons are far more destructive, but our propensity for violence and war seems to be an invariant across the millennia.

Great Scott, I think we just hit someone!

> indicates horrific demise

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

> 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.

After all these years they finally got someone

i read death BY trebuchet, i am disappointed.

dude got absolutely rocked

first confirmed case of MLG noscope