Secrets of Lost Empires. 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.
Ancient Mesopotamia. Ancient Mayans. Ancient Greece. Ancient Egypt. Ancient history. Roman History. Ancient Civilizations. 2,500,000 BCE to 8,000 BCE Timeline : From Cave Paintings to the Internet. 4339 entries. 93 themes.
Last updated April 13, 2014. Circa 2,500,000 BCE – 500,000 BCE The First Industrial ComplexCirca 2,400,000 BCE – 1,400,000 BCE Homo habilisCirca 1,950,000 BCE – 1,780,000 BCE.