Did you know the Great Wall of China is over 21,000 kilometers long? It’s about three times longer than we thought. This shows the wall’s history is complex, not just one structure.

Each has its own rich history, with several known as "Wonders of the World." The Great Wall of China is part of that list. The extensive structure was built over millennia by various Chinese ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire.

In the third century BC, China was a land fractured by war - a patchwork of rival kingdoms struggling for dominance. Out of this chaos rose a single, extraordinary figure who would reshape the course ...

Just one among many defensive strategies that China employed, the Great Wall stretches more than 5,000 ... all built during different eras in history. (See also: Building walls may have allowed ...

Various dynasties worked on the 2,485-mile-long (4,000-km) MWS, such as the Jin dynasty (1115 to 1234 CE), whose empire ...

Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists studying a little-known stretch of the "Great Wall of China" have revealed new insights into the history of what is considered one of the largest ...

Criterion (vi): The Great Wall has an incomparable symbolic significance in the history of China. Its purpose was to protect China from outside aggression, but also to preserve its culture from the ...

A new series of Race Across the World is back on our screens, and this time, the teams are navigating themselves through a ...

ONE of the Seven Wonders of the World, The Great Wall of China can be seen from the International Space Station orbiting the earth. It is one of the greatest engineering feats in the history of ...