Craigievar may never even ... walls still echo to childish giggles and drams by a fireplace where the family dog cosied in an old salt store repurposed as a snug bed. Forget dank, dour castle ...

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.

A 400-year-old stone wall once part of Edo Castle, discovered only last year at what is now the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, is likely the castle’s oldest existing remnant ever unearthed ...

KYOTO--A stone wall unearthed at the ruins of Fushimi Castle here suggests that 16th-century warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi built the structure with the latest quake-resistant techniques after a ...