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Welcome to the companion Web site to the NOVA program "Medieval Siege,"
scheduled for broadcast on January 24, 2006. In the film, which is a part of the
NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, a team of timber framers and other
specialists design, build, and fire a pair of trebuchets, a devastating engine
of war popular in the Middle Ages. Here's what you'll find online:
 * Medieval Arms Race
   The trebuchet was only the most frightening of the weapons early European
   warriors employed in siege warfare. They also relied on battering rams, siege
   towers, tunnels - anything to gain access to a castle. Defenders, meanwhile,
   had a few tricks of their own.
   
   
 * NOVA Builds a Trebuchet
   Follow a slide show that documents NOVA's successful attempt to build and
   shoot a giant trebuchet, the most destructive war machine that ever laid
   siege to a medieval castle.
   
   
 * Life in a Castle
   Professor Richard Holmes, a British military historian and member of the NOVA
   trebuchet-building team, describes what everyday life was like in a typical
   English castle of the Middle Ages.
   
   
 * Destroy the Castle (Hot Science)
   Build your own virtual trebuchet and fire giant sandstone balls at a castle
   wall. You decide on the size of your projectiles, where to place your
   trebuchet, and other factors critical to success.

Plus Resources and a Teacher's Guide.

Medieval Arms Race | NOVA Builds a Trebuchet | Life in a Castle
Destroy the Castle | Resources | Transcript

Medieval Siege | Pharaoh's Obelisk | Easter Island | Roman Bath | China Bridge |
Site Map

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