From wooden motte-and-baileys to stone giants bristling with defenses, this 3D journey shows how medieval castles evolved over 400 years of war and power. Comedians react to Trump’s nickname for ...

TREIGNY, France Maryline Martin, like a lot of little French girls, was besotted with the Middle Ages, with castles ... stone, and workers must wear steel-toed boots. The scaffolding of wood ...

A wooden drawbridge provided access across the moat. The stone castles that we recognize ... took special care to reinforce the defenses of a castle’s entryway. Castle gates would be made ...

SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND—Archaeologists recovered four wooden stakes ... as the castle succumbed to Parliamentarian forces after a 10-day siege in 1644. The castle’s defenses were subsequently ...

Cataclismo takes inspiration from both tower defence and building with Lego ... have a way up there—to save on precious stone, I build a set of wooden stairs and parapets. Without realising ...

Since 2019, Shirobito, a Japanese online media platform specialising in castles, compiles an annual list of Japan’s top 20 ...

A contractor was selected after a check of the castle’s stone foundations. Work to demolish the existing donjon will begin as soon as the central government gives permission. The wooden tower ...

A large stone ... castle, and is 1ft (29cm) wide and weighs 4.5 stone (28.5kg). The ball was found 1.3ft (40cm) deep in the east wing of the site. It is thought it was launched from a large wooden ...