The World's Most Mysterious CastlesDundurn, 16.10.2005 - 304 sivua Castles are among the most mysterious buildings on earth. Their grimly silent stones are signposts to a past filled with high adventure, grim tragedies, and glorious victories. Ghosts, hauntings, and other paranormal phenomena are frequently reported from castles. Do strange paranormal powers lurk among their ancient ruins? The World's Most Mysterious Castles takes you on a journey through hidden chambers and subterranean tunnels of castles all over the world. Their walls served the sinister needs of spies, traitors, and assassins. Do the spirits of attackers and defenders who died in long-forgotten sieges still linger where they fell? Screams of unbearable pain and despair were muffled within their deepest, darkest torture dungeons. Do they echo there still? |
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... known fortifications. It would have occurred to these primordial military strategists — probably from their knowledge of hunting — that high ground was a decided advantage. An attacker moved more slowly when trying to climb a steep ...
... known to archaeologists as “Paleoindians” and were in the region as much as ten thousand years ago. Found in Labrador and as far south as Maine, they were a highly intelligent and resourceful people, with a degree of craftsmanship that ...
... known in their language as pa. They frequently took advantage of extinct volcanoes as sites for these high-level defences. Archaeological evidence abounds that Sweden alone had well over one thousand early fortifications of this type ...
... known as Maiden Castle, near the village of Winterborne Monkton. It covered over forty acres, and in its heyday the outer ramparts were nearly three kilometres long. The oldest part of the fortifications dates back at least five ...
... known as castellums. The common denominators of these simple, early, defensible places were a mound (the motte) with a fortification on top of it and a fenced-in area (the bailey) that offered some degree of safety. Over the years ...