The Great Wall of China continues to fascinate the world, thousands of years after construction on the massive bulwark first began. This architectural wonder is a historic reminder of what humanity ...

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The Great Wall stretches over 13,000 miles across the northern borders of China and was built over centuries by China's emperors to protect their territory. Recent scientific analysis of plant ...

Archaeologists recently excavated an area of the Great Wall known as the Qi wall in China's Shandong Province. Kevin Frayer / Getty Images China’s Great Wall wasn’t built all at once—it was ...

After unifying China in the 3rd century B.C., the first Emperor of the Qin dynasty turned his fearsome gaze to one of the Middle Kingdom’s perennial problems: marauding nomads from the Central Asian ...

The Great Wall of China, an enduring emblem of ancient civilization, stretches across the northern borders, reflecting more ...

(CNN) — The Great Wall of China has inspired countless works of art in its more than 2,000-year history. Among the most famous is “The Great Wall Walk,” a dramatic 90-day performance that saw lovers ...

HONG KONG — China’s Great Wall has stood for centuries, through war and upheaval — but one section of the vast structure was seemingly no match for two workers seeking a shortcut. A part of the wall ...

Two people have been detained in northern China after allegedly damaging a section of the Great Wall with an excavator, according to local authorities. A 38-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman in ...