00:00Ancient Greek soldiers braced their bodies against innovative composite belly bows,
00:04loading powerful mechanical crossbows.
00:07How did a complex wooden launcher from 4th century BCE Syracuse generate armor-piercing kinetic force?
00:15Most historians assume medieval knights invented the trigger crossbow, but Greeks built this earlier.
00:21Operators slammed their entire chest weight forward to compress the heavy wooden prod and lock it.
00:26This lethal belly-loading weapon changed siege warfare before ancient Greek soldiers braced their bodies.
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