The 8.5-mile-long wall that surrounds Xi’an, touted as one of the best-preserved walled fortifications in China, could be the ...

The oldest known part of the Great Wall of China was recently excavated, dating 300 years earlier than the previous ...

Some ancient sections of Great Wall of China in Shandong Province south of Beijing are 300 years older than previously ...

Archaeologists in China have discovered a 2,800-year-old fortified wall that predates the country's first emperor. The wall, ...

"This archaeological discovery pushes the construction date of the Great Wall back to the Western Zhou period, establishing ...

Great Wall of China may be centuries older than previously thought - Oldest sections likely built 300 years earlier than thought ...

“We explore around the wall, surprised to find remains ... experiences traveling to various Great Wall sites. “The Great Wall of China,” In Our Time: BBC radio host Melvyn Bragg discusses ...

The Great Wall of China stretches for more than 13,000 miles from Dandong in the east to Lop Lake in the west, along an arc which roughly traces the southern edge of Inner Mongolia. It consists of ...

The Great Wall of China wasn’t a single construction project, but rather a series of defensive and border fortifications linked over hundreds of years under the direction of multiple royal dynasties.

The Great Wall was initially built to safeguard ancient China's northern borders. Archaeologists in eastern China have uncovered evidence that some sections of the Great Wall are far older than ...