Along the L.A. River, history reveals itself through paintings of figures and events dating from prehistoric times to the 1950s on The Great Wall of Los Angeles. The more-than-half-mile-long mural ...

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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 ...

The Jiayuguan Great Wall was built long ago for military defense and continues to safeguard the Hexi Corridor's historical legacy in today's Gansu province. [Photo by ERIK NILSSON/CHINA DAILY] His ...

(CNN) — Every day, thousands of tourists from around the world plan their bucket-list trips to the Great Wall of China. Despite the wall’s 5,500-odd miles of terrain, stretching from east to west ...

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Two people have been arrested in northern China after allegedly damaging a section of China's iconic Great Wall by using an excavator to cut a huge gap in the ancient structure, local police said in a ...

Rammed earth portions of the Great Wall of China — built by compressing natural materials with soils — have been regarded as a weak point in its structure. But these swaths of the iconic landmark ...

For centuries, humans have marveled at structures that seem to defy logic, with the Great Wall of China and the Pyramids of Giza often topping the list of landmarks visible from space. Yet, in the ...

Two suspects accused of digging a hole to create a shortcut over the Great Wall of China have been arrested for causing damage to the world famous heritage site. Last month, police received an alert ...