Unlike many of the castle’s other remains found at the ... The roughly 4-meter-high stone wall was discovered in November last year on the grounds of Sannomaru Shozokan (The Museum of the ...

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.

Ensuring safety and security is another major challenge for rebuilding the castle's stone walls. Stone walls have such a high cultural value that they should be restored to their original ...

If you look at a medieval castle, you can very often see little stone extensions built out from the walls. The waste matter fell into the moat below. Even some several hundred years after they ...