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.

Hidden Medieval Door Leading to Smugglers’ Caves Discovered Underneath Scottish Castle Culzean Castle, a towering fortress overlooking the cliffs of Ayrshire, sits atop a labyrinthine network ...

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.

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.

Archaeologists in Germany uncovered the remains of a medieval man with a “sophisticated” centuries-old iron prosthetic hand. The complete skeleton of a middle-aged man at the time of his death ...

At Beauvais, the researchers were able to prove that the iron used to hold up the 157-foot-high choir (the tallest ever built in Europe) dated all the way back to 1225, which indicates that it was ...

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.