In March 2024, construction workers were digging in a river on a Dutch estate when they spotted a long piece of metal ...

The widespread medieval use of iron maidens is an 18th-century myth, ... The hapless torture victim would be forced inside and the door would shut, driving the spikes into the body.

The discovery of a medieval door isn't the only evidence of how people ... found in the neighbouring Castle Cave revealed that they were first used by humans nearly 2,000 years ago in the Iron Age.

An iron strip may have been part of the door hinge or fittings.” Lucas Merz, a volunteer from Berlin, said: “I’ve never done archaeology before. It has been a great experience.

A 1,000-year-old medieval weapon was unearthed by unknowing construction workers, Ancient Origins reported.

OVER the decades, many have assumed that the iron maiden – a human-shaped coffin with spikes on the inner surface of its door apparently to pierce the bodies of those condemned to be locked ...

"Completely preserved," the right-handed iron glove was found inside a cellar at a known medieval town near Kyburg Castle, about 11 miles (18 kilometers) northeast of Zurich.