The castle was 138 feet (42 meters) long and 56 feet (17 meters) wide, and some of its walls were as thick as 18 feet (5.6 ...

Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Tom Pinfold and Peter Ginn explore medieval castle building on site at the modern-day reconstruction project of Guédelon Castle in France. The film ...

NARRATOR: Another key feature of the castle's interior was floor tiles, and the medieval manufacture of tiles for a castle's roofs and floors was an industry in itself. At Guédelon, 28,000 tiles ...

Professor Richard Holmes, a British military historian featured in the NOVA film "Medieval Siege," talks here about everyday life in a medieval English castle, giving a sense of how lords and ...

A medieval French castle dripping with history — and possibly Napoleon’s hidden gold — is for sale, asking $3.8 million. The Chateau de Saint-Chartier, a 1,500-year-old fortress in Saint ...

Enter the castle via an arched door. Step inside Ballintotis Castle, a two-bedroom, private detached medieval castle located in Ballintotis, Castlemartyr, Co. Cork. Located just two miles west of ...

The abatises were found in front of the medieval gatehouse of Sheffield Castle, a strategic point. The stakes were crudely made, meaning they may have been made in haste as an attack approached ...

A GROUNDBREAKING discovery has unearthed mysterious tunnels which may have been sketched by Leonardo da Vinci over 500 years ago. The Italian genius, who was a revolutionary mathematician but also ...

A County Durham castle is set to welcome visitors for the first full season of its remodelled walled garden and 200-seater restaurant. Raby Castle, a 14th century castle in Staindrop, has gone ...

War in medieval times was about the control of land. Garrisons of knights and other soldiers who lived in castles controlled the land around their stone fortresses. To conquer a territory ...