If you look at a medieval castle, you can very often see little stone extensions built out from the walls. The waste matter fell into the moat below. Even some several hundred years after they ...

From royal feasts to siege defense, this is what daily life looked like behind the towering walls of a medieval castle—where power lived.

NARRATOR: Rooms in castles didn't have bare stone walls like the ruins we see today. They were covered with a layer of mortar, the medieval equivalent of plaster.Next, they were given a coat of ...

Inside a medieval castle. videoInside a medieval castle Those cold stone walls need some cheering up! Ruth Goodman, Tom Pinfold and Peter Ginn discover that medieval castles were lavishly ...

Further excavations revealed approximately 170 earlier burials, the majority of which are provisionally thought to relate to ...

Mr Martin said Barryscourt Castle, a tower house built by the Anglo-Norman Barry family near Carrigtwohill in east Cork, ...

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.

IN THE hills of central Spain is the pretty pink town of Albarracín. With medieval walls and the remains of castles, it's even been said to look like a scene from a fairytale. Albarracín is ...