Work on Guildhall Road in Hull has revealed a section of the defensive walls from the 14th Century.

From Hadrian's Wall to the Great Wall of China, ancient fortified structures have been the subject of interest for centuries. When archaeologists come across these walls, they often categorize them as ...

If you head to the north of Europe, north of Germany and Poland, up to the Baltic sea, you’ll eventually hit Finland. Back off a bit, no a bit more that’s Russia, you’ll find Tallinn, Estonia. It’s a ...

Medieval Tallinn is impossibly lovely—pastel-hued buildings, narrow church spires, timbered halls serving game meats and mead. If you go to Estonia’s capital—and you should—you’ll certainly see it.

A new study investigated the Gobi Wall, the least understood section of the Medieval Wall System. Built by a nomadic empire, researchers discovered an architectural achievement that reflected its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Great Wall of China has long overshadowed the Mongolian Arc, a less imposing medieval wall system that snakes across 250 miles ...

As a young backpacker, I first fell in love with the picturesque village of Rothenburg, in Germany’s Franconian heartland. At that time, the town still fed a few farm animals within its medieval walls ...

A church is hoping to preserve an important medieval painting uncovered on a wall. The Doom or Last Judgement painting - a medieval church wall depiction of when Christ judges all souls going to ...

Archaeologists have uncovered part of a medieval wall during conservation work at a historic monument. St Oswald's Priory in Gloucester was built in 900 AD and, until now, only the remains of the ...