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.

How you design your trebuchet will decide the fate of the castle wall—and it may also decide your fate as well. With some choices, your missile might land too short or fly too far. With others ...

An unassuming Tudor hunting lodge in the Cumbrian district in the U.K. just gave up a wild secret: rare wall paintings from ...

OTSU--A 30-meter-long stone wall and a moat were unearthed at the site of the castle belonging to the 16th-century samurai general who betrayed feudal warlord Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582). The city ...

Work is about to begin to restore a historic mound where a castle once stood 800 years ago. Missing stones will be replaced on the motte wall of the former Bedford Castle site, the mortar ...

On May 12, the Kyoto City Archaeological Research Institute announced the discovery of remnants of a castle wall and moat within the grounds of what now constitutes the Kyoto Imperial Palace.