In the ninth and tenth centuries, castles were often built of wood and easily burned down by enemies. As unrest spread across Europe and warfare began to change, castle designs had to adapt.

Early trebuchets were built on site. As they grew increasingly large and powerful, wagons carrying sections of prefabricated ...

Skipton, a friendly and historic market town on the River Aire, on the southern edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, is ...

The author, age 6, is photographed on Christmas in 1971. "The Joe Namath uniform did NOT land as effectively as the castle set," the author writes. I was 6 years old when I received the Christmas toy ...

These games allow players to flex their creative muscles when it comes to building grand and imposing castles.

While the princess was often powerless, the snippets of evidence that we have about her present the life of a young woman ...

The nostalgia cycle rarely rewinds this far, but some things are just timeless, like maximalist detail, slow craftsmanship and weird little guys.

What are the best medieval games ... arrows from the relative safety of the castle walls, or knock down enemy fortifications with catapults and other siege technology. There is a wide range ...

I prefer to recall a less violent exchange during the castle’s final siege in 1745 ... which retains its medieval “fishbone” cityscape of a broad spinal thoroughfare lined with the entrances ...

For most of my lifetime, if you visited Budapest’s castle district on the Buda hills ... badly damaged during the siege of Buda in 1945. For decades this was left as a soot-and-gunpowder-stained ...