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 ...

Currently, a project is under way to rebuild damaged stone walls there, boosted by traditional craftsmanship and the latest technology. The project is helping the castle again attract sightseers ...

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 ...