According to the inscription, five top-ranking officials had been ordered to seek medicinal herbs near Mount Kunlun, a ...

Construction on the Great Wall began in the third-century BCE under Qin Shi Huang (Shihuangdi), the first emperor of a unified China, the History Channel reports. Prior to the Qin dynasty ...

the First Emperor of Qin commissioned an extension of the wall - to protect his territory from invasion by northern states. According to historical records, the Chu State first built a "Great Wall ...

The state of Qin, based in the Sichuan plains ... That project, during which countless workers died, marked the beginning of the Great Wall. (Did the Great Wall of China work?) ...

In c. 220 B.C., under Qin Shi Huang, sections of earlier fortifications were joined together to form a united defence system against invasions from the north. Construction continued up to the Ming ...

While construction began under the Qin dynasty, the recognizable segments that we think of when we visualize the Great Wall were largely the handiwork of the Ming dynasty, which created these ...

The Great Wall of China has 15 strategic passes from the East to the West. It took over 2,000 years to construct the wall. The first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang took the remnants of ancient ...

A newly uncovered section of the Great Wall of China in the late Western Zhou Dynasty, dating back nearly 3,000 years, suggests the structure's origins are three centuries older than previously ...

Qin Shi Huang (Kim Seung-ho), who unified China with an army of 500,000, takes Yong-nyeo (Kim Ji-mi), the daughter of a tribal chief, as a concubine on his way back to Hanyang; after spending a ...

Construction of the Great Wall of China started during the reign of the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, who ruled from around 221 to 210 B.C. The wall was later modified and renovated ...