In c. 220 B.C., under Qin Shi Huang, sections of earlier fortifications were joined together to form a united defence system against invasions from the north. Construction continued up to the Ming ...

Archaeologists are gripped by something new about the Great Wall of China, which spans 12,000 miles and was constructed over ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what is now considered the oldest section of the Great Wall in Shandong Province, shifting its ...

Among those who walk the Great Wall of China in northern Beijing daily is Liu Hongyan, a 45-year-old resident in Shixia ...

Dating back millennia and once spanning over 13,000 miles, the Great Wall of China is one of the most ambitious construction projects ever undertaken by humans. Recent excavations at the ancient ...

Their work revealed new sections of the Qi wall ... “This archaeological discovery pushes the construction date of the Great Wall back to the Western Zhou period, establishing it as the earliest ...

Some sections are in better condition than others, and transportation to and from them can be less reliable. You can reach the Great Wall of China via public bus (with Badaling and Mutianyu being ...

The sections built during this period are what most tourists tend to visit today. The Great Wall also provided a border boundary that allowed the Chinese authorities to impose duties on goods ...

The Great Wall was built to secure ancient China’s ... new excavations undertaken last year and covering over 1,000 square meters found sections of the wall dating back to the late Western ...

The newly unearthed ruins in the Changqing district of Jinan, East China's Shandong Province, reveal that the earliest known sections of the Great Wall date back to the late Western Zhou Dynasty ...

A worker busy restoring part of the Ming Great Wall in the county in 2019. [PHOTO BY ZHAI JIZONG/FOR CHINA DAILY] In 2006, the Han and Ming walls were designated a national key cultural relic ...

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