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Siege tower

A siege tower or breaching tower (or in the Middle Ages, a belfry) is a specialized siege engine, constructed to protect assailants and ladders while approaching the defensive walls of a fortification. The tower was often rectangular with four wheels with its height roughly equal to that of the wall or sometimes higher to allow archers or crossbowmen to…

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Siege tower

Nodes109
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Triples37
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related to Ancient use · 16
Siege tower → Akkadian, Anatolia, Ashurnasirpal II, BC, Egypt, First Intermediate Period, General Intef, Harpoot, Hittite, In, Luxor, Neo-Assyrian Empire, Reliefs, Siege, Thebes, Turkey
related to Modern parallels · 8
Siege tower → Copenhagen, Denmark, In, March, On, The, These, Ungdomshuset
related to Medieval and later use · 7
Siege tower → Avars, Chronicon Paschale, Constantinople, Eastern Roman Empire, Siege, Western Roman Empire, With

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siege towers tower used could use bc wall walls fortification ancient also archers large later built city castle greek period

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battering rams.The siege tower sometimes housed spearmeninstance ofor by breaking walls or gates with tools0.80text
pikemeninstance ofor by breaking walls or gates with tools0.80text
and swordsmen or archersinstance ofor by breaking walls or gates with tools0.80text
crossbowmeninstance ofor by breaking walls or gates with tools0.80text
who shot arrowsinstance ofor by breaking walls or gates with tools0.80text
quarrels at the defendersinstance ofor by breaking walls or gates with tools0.80text
Siege towerrelated to Ancient useIn0.60section
Siege towerrelated to Ancient useFirst Intermediate Period0.60section
Siege towerrelated to Ancient useGeneral Intef0.60section
Siege towerrelated to Ancient useThebes0.60section
Siege towerrelated to Ancient useLuxor0.60section
Siege towerrelated to Ancient useEgypt0.60section

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