@pixelthrone: What Happens if You're Caught in a Medieval Siege? 🏰 Most people think the safest place to be is behind thick stone walls, but during a medieval siege, your nightmare was just beginning. From rotting carcasses launched over the walls to boiling leather for soup, we explore the brutal reality of survival inside a besieged city. The Horror of the Siege: Biological Warfare: Attackers catapulted rotting animal carcasses and human remains over the walls to spread plague and dysentery long before any swords were drawn. The Starvation Timeline: As months passed and food ran out, citizens were forced to eat horses, then dogs, and eventually rats. The "Leather Soup": When all other food was gone, people would boil their leather shoes and belts into a jelly-like soup just to keep their stomachs from collapsing. Siege Mining: Attackers would dig tunnels beneath the walls, filling them with flammable pig fat and setting them on fire to create massive sinkholes that swallowed the stone defenses. The Breach: Once the walls were breached, cities that didn't surrender early were often completely looted. Subscribe to Pixel Throne for more deep dives into the science and history of survival! #MedievalHistory #SurvivalScience #HistoryExplained #MedievalSiege #Warfare #WhatIf #PixelThrone

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