NARRATOR: Rooms in castles didn't have bare stone walls like the ruins we see today. They were covered with a layer of mortar, the medieval equivalent of plaster.Next, they were given a coat of ...

While excavating a parking lot in Eschwege, Germany, ahead of the construction of a new public park, archaeologists uncovered ...

A 400-year-old stone wall once part of Edo Castle, discovered only last year at what is now the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, is likely the castle’s oldest existing remnant ever unearthed ...

Archaeologists and university students excavated a stone wall ... had Roman ruins. He was right. On the hilltop, known as Cerro de la Mora, Vegazo found ancient Roman defensive walls, a crumbling ...

Experts say the stone wall at the ruins of Fushimi Castle in Kyoto’s Fushimi Ward was built in consideration of its appearance and quake-resistance strength. Each of the large, white split rocks ...

Once-thriving landmarks like the ancient city of Palmyra and the medieval ... into centuries-old walls. Sheep enclosures dot the ruins, plastic debris blending with ancient stone.