A new trail marker system installed at China Camp State Park near San Rafael this summer is helping emergency responders to more quickly locate and rescue injured, lost and ailing hikers.

In the wide-open steppe of eastern Mongolia, archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a very long wall. This isn’t China’s ...

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

The Great Wall of China is the best-known strip of fortifications in East Asia, if not the world. But just a few days’ horse ...

The Great Wall of China is part of that list ... Emperor Shihuangdi, however, connected the walls into a single system, creating the beginnings of the Great Wall. From the Han to Ming dynasty ...

China’s iconic Great Wall, actually a network of fortifications rather than a single structure, is the product of countless labors over a period of some two thousand years. Qin Shi Huang took ...