https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/04/french-archaeologists-unearth-a-600-year-old-castle Safeguarding Humanity Mon, 01 Jul 2024 07:59:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/04/french-archaeologists-unearth-a-600-year-old-castle#comment-507917 Mon, 01 Jul 2024 07:59:33 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/04/french-archaeologists-unearth-a-600-year-old-castle#comment-507917 Any mention of an oubliette or some walled up skeletons? Those have to be the creepiest things to find in a medieval castle, as it means that the victims were subjected to one of the most drawn out execution methods in history, starvation! For the uninitiated, an oubliette was a kind of dungeon within a dungeon into which some unfortunate souls would be lowered or thrown and left to starve to death, and it’s essentially a variation on immurement or live burial.

]]> https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/04/french-archaeologists-unearth-a-600-year-old-castle#comment-507916 Mon, 01 Jul 2024 07:53:25 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/04/french-archaeologists-unearth-a-600-year-old-castle#comment-507916 This is a castle that should be preserved! It’s a valuable piece of history!

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