NARRATOR: Another key feature of the castle's interior was floor tiles, and the medieval manufacture of tiles for a castle's roofs and floors was an industry in itself. At Guédelon, 28,000 tiles ...

Turret-ly in love with castles ... a 'hulking fortress', a 'monument to monarchy' and the world's longest castle. There is also a Versailles lookalike, a castle so perfectly preserved 'it looks ...

Professor Richard Holmes, a British military historian featured in the NOVA film "Medieval Siege," talks here about everyday life in a medieval English castle, giving a sense of how lords and ...

A medieval French castle dripping with history — and possibly Napoleon’s hidden gold — is for sale, asking $3.8 million. The Chateau de Saint-Chartier, a 1,500-year-old fortress in Saint ...

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.

He converted it from the bunker into the castle it is today, complete with rounded turret and a large automatic medieval-style front door. “It was underground from where the second storey is now ...