Among 15 provincial-level regions boasting sections of the wall, Hebei is home to the best-preserved and most iconic sections of the Great Wall.

China’s most famous icon, the Great Wall stretches over 21,000 kilometers, winding its way through 15 provinces, 97 prefectures and 404 counties. Here are some of the most stunning spots ...

He has found over 1,000 km of previously unrecorded sections. The Great Wall distribution map in Li's computer is dotted with over 10,000 marked spots, each representing a site he has visited.

Some sections of Great Wall of China in Shandong Province are 300 years older than previously believed, according to recent excavations. Those ancient sections date back to the late Zhou Dynasty ...

Not all sections of the Great Wall are built from stone or brick. Large portions, particularly in arid regions, were constructed using compacted soil, or rammed earth. This material, while durable ...

The total length of all sections of the Great Wall is approximately 13,171 miles, according to Britannica. This includes every portion that has ever been built, including overlapping sections.

The Great Wall spans more than 12,000 miles across northern China. Construction of the massive defensive structure—which has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1987—lasted through the ...

Swaths of the Great Wall of China are under siege from erosion. An unlikely “living skin” of organisms, or biocrust, is helping safeguard them.

As the team wrote in their paper: “Compared with bare rammed earth, the biocrust-covered sections exhibited reduced porosity, water-holding capacity, erodibility, and salinity by 2 to 48%, while ...