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Re:Archaeologists rebury ‘first-of-its-kind’ Roman villa by Retric on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @02:17PM (#32416284)
Catapults and other torsion where during the Roman empire, though the thickness of walls also related to how tall they needed to be to be effective. Anything under 30 feet is easy to get over using simple ladders.

The Trebuchet is plenty old enough, but we don't have evidence of use by Rome.

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Re:Archaeologists rebury ‘first-of-its-kind’ Roman villa by mcguire on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @02:58PM (#32416847)
As far as I know, it depends on what you mean by trebuchet. Counterpoise trebuchets (using heavy weights) are definitely medieval.
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Re:Archaeologists rebury ‘first-of-its-kind’ Roman villa by Retric on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @05:39PM (#32418792)
Yes, the giant weapons most people think of when they hear the term trebuchet is medieval improvement allowing people to further scale up the design. A mangonel (traction trebuchet) is the older design, but trebuchet is referring any scaled up staff sling.
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