New research suggests that some sections of the wall were constructed during the Western Zhou dynasty between 1046 and 771 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 was built to secure ancient China’s northern borders against nomadic groups from the Eurasian Steppe. Historical records suggest the construction of the Unesco World Heritage ...

Archaeological excavations in eastern China's Shandong province suggest that some of the oldest sections of the Great Wall were built 300 years earlier than previously thought. Recent digs in the ...