When you picture a medieval castle, it’s easy to focus on its size or appearance, but every detail served a defensive purpose. From the 11th to the 15th centuries, castles were central to warfare, and ...

Beneath a courthouse in northwest England, archaeologists made an unexpected find in a shadowy passageway: using nothing more ...

Sheffield, England, in the mid-1600s was in the middle of a civil war. Part of the British Isles supported Charles I for the monarchy, while the rest of the kingdom was divided on who should lead ...

Learn how part of a nearly 800-year-old medieval castle thought to have been destroyed was found beneath Chester Crown Court. At the end of a dark corridor beneath Chester Crown Court, archaeologist ...