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 knights. But it actually ...

“Set on 7.5 landscaped acres with multi-level stone terraces, curving stone walls ... of real estate archives to get inside looks at luxurious properties. “Glynallyn Castle, an architectural ...

Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Tom Pinfold and Peter Ginn discover castle interior ... castles were not bare stone inside like today's ruins. Instead, walls were plastered and decorated ...

The trebuchet was one of the most devastating weapons of the Middle Ages. During medieval sieges, this destruction machine crushed castle walls. Using trial and error, medieval engineers adjusted ...

Balmoral Castle has been the British Royal Family's ... After a short introduction, we’re taken into the entrance hall. Its walls are lined with 22 stuffed stag heads and there’s a bronze ...

Taymouth Castle sits at the head of Loch Tay in Perthshire ... that was black and mouldy and the paint was chipping off the walls and falling in. “There was so much water ingress in the ceilings ...

But it is the MacDermots’ much earlier castle—hidden, perhaps, by crumbling walls, creeping vegetation, and feet of mud—that archaeologist Thomas Finan of Saint Louis University has now set ...