NARRATOR: Rooms in castles didn't have bare stone walls like the ruins we ... Another key feature of the castle's interior was floor tiles, and the medieval manufacture of tiles for a castle's ...

Hidden in the Italian countryside lies a majestic medieval castle, abandoned since the 19th century. Once a grand symbol of power, its halls now echo with mystery—crumbling walls, antique ...

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 ...

This medieval handbook of health from the 1300s shows people picking garlic to treat illnesses. (PRISMA ARCHIVO / Alamy Stock Photo) Some castles had stone basins built into the walls called ...