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

The wall that surrounds Xi’an is 8.5 miles long and protects the city’s historic artifacts, including its famed terra-cotta warriors.

A Japanese man and woman in their 20s were detained for about two weeks over a picture of the man exposing his buttocks at ...

Construction of the Great Wall of China started during the reign of the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, who ruled from ...

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

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 ...

For the first time, experts have mapped all of “Genghis Khan’s Wall,” a 458-mile stretch of China’s world-famous Great Wall in Mongolia. According to Fox News, the subsequent study found ...

Insider Tip: The Great Wall was designed for protection, but don’t forget the forts that were another part of China’s defenses. The 16th-century Yaoziyu Fort, for example, is the best preserve ...

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 ...

Just north of Beijing, you'll find one of the most famous monuments in the world: the Great Wall of China. Although it's unlikely you'll see the whole thing, you should aim to experience a portion ...

It’s a visual display of one of the purported ruling concepts of the Chinese Communist Party, that all 56 ethnic groups in ...

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 ...