archers and engineers, cooks and carpenters lived their lives behind castle walls. NOVA: When we think of life inside a medieval castle, what usually comes to mind are lords, ladies, and maybe ...

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 ...

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 ...