In the contest, high school and college students design, construct, and operate working scale models of medieval or older artillery such as the trebuchet, the catapult and the ballista.

550 years later, kids will have the chance to fire a much less dangerous projectile at the castle over the Easter weekend, using a medieval catapult called a trebuchet.

As a child, Worroll had won his school’s trebuchet competition (a trebuchet is a kind of catapult) in South Florida. He recalled his youthful victory as a “crowning achievement" in his ...

Stricter safety measures may have prevented the death of a man who was killed when he was flung from a human catapult, an inquest jury has ruled. Oxford University student Kostydin Yankov, 19, of ...

Mark Harris loads a pumpkin onto a catapult (trebuchet) Saturday at Washington State College of Ohio in Marietta during the second annual Pumpkin Chuckin’ event. Organizers wanted to show off ...

Verified footage shows Israeli troops using a trebuchet—a type of catapult that uses a heavy weight—to hurl flaming projectiles over a large concrete wall as one soldier shouts “come on ...

A viral video shows IDF troops launching fireballs over the northern border. The troops appeared to be using a makeshift trebuchet, a French catapult weapon not seen in use since the 16th century.

ISRAEL has been filmed using a medieval siege weapon to launch fireballs at Lebanon. The strange footage showed troops using a catapult-like weapon to fling incendiaries across the border in an app… ...

Israeli troops have used a medieval-style catapult to toss fireballs across the border into Lebanon, as fighting ramps up between Israel and the Iran-backed Islamist group Hezbollah. The trebuchet ...