A decadeslong renovation project in Yorkshire included the revamp of a 30-room wing where descendants of the earl who ...

During medieval sieges, this destruction machine crushed castle walls. Using trial and error, medieval engineers adjusted the trebuchet to make sure its missile hit the castle wall—and destroyed it.

Wakayama Castle in western Japan was hit by heavy rains in the region last July. The downpour caused a ten-meter-wide section of its exterior supporting wall to collapse. A landslide caused by ...

Around 1495, the lord of Milan hired Leonardo da Vinci and other artists to decorate the castle's interior walls and ceilings ...

Previous discoveries at Sheffield Castle include a “hidey-hole” left behind by a steelworker in a cellar as well as medieval tokens and newly discovered castle walls as the site “keeps revealing its ...

The stone wall, which is 1.8 meters tall and 7 meters wide and runs east to west, is believed to have been a boundary that divided the central part of the castle and warriors’ residences.

Newark and Sherwood District Council Ahead of the building work, archaeologists investigated buried remains outside the castle wall The infamous King John died at the castle in 1216, but a large ...

So there were two main ways to capture a castle. You either attacked the castle walls and tried to break the defences; or you stopped any food from going into the castle, so that those inside ...