What a castle siege is How people prepared for a siege ... Use this drawing of a medieval trebuchet to help you. Image caption, Can you draw a trebuchet and label the different parts?

There were endemic food crises in medieval England as a result of which many people died. If you knew a siege was coming, you stocked up even more. In 1173, for example, Salisbury Castle thought ...

Just outside the castle walls, they discovered eight ... are shedding new light on what is believed to be the longest siege ...

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 ...

Sheffield Castle underwent a siege in 1644 as part of the civil war ... left behind by a steelworker in a cellar as well as medieval tokens and newly discovered castle walls as the site ...

It's a great week for going medieval. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 crashed through Steam's gates on Tuesday, and now here comes survival sandbox Rust with its Primitive update. It's got swords ...

Stone-Throwing Machines and Their Effects on the Medieval Castles of the Syrian Coastal Region. In. P. Edbury, D. Pringle and B. Major eds. Bridge of Civilizations: The Near East and Europe, c.

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 ...