Viewed together, these limestone slabs look like an ancient wall. Or maybe they resemble fingers. No, wait, they're headstones, or weathered lumber, or trolls' teeth. You can look at this half-mile ...

Dead billionaires have piled up in modern pop culture to an almost absurd amount. Surely some Pacific Heights morgue is ...

At first glance, standing in front of it, you may consider it a normal house. But move to the side for the surprise. It's arguably one of the most bizarre buildings ever constructed, and that's what ...

A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been erected to control the flow of people, perhaps for tax reasons ...

This newly found wall "is, of course, not 'the Great Wall of China,'" Gideon Shelach-Lavi, a professor of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, told Live Science in an email.

The Great Wall of China is a series of ancient walls and fortifications that span more than 20,000 kilometers (12,427 miles) across China. It was continuously built over the course of 2,000 years ...

The Great Wall spans more than 12,000 miles across northern China. Construction of the massive defensive structure—which has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1987—lasted through the ...

Archaeologists in eastern China have uncovered evidence that some sections of the Great Wall are far older than historians initially believed. Recent studies now suggest the wall dates back about ...

The study also revealed three distinct construction phases, according to Zhang Su, project leader of the institute. The oldest “Qi” portions dated back to the late Western Zhou Dynasty (1046 B.C.E. to ...

The Great Wall of China wasn’t a single construction project, but rather a series of defensive and border fortifications linked over hundreds of years under the direction of multiple royal ...

Ancient, mysterious and magical, the lure of the Great Wall is rightly strong, even if you can’t actually see it from space, as you were told at school. Its total length has been measured at 21 ...

His photos of the Great Wall, often showcasing its awe-inspiring beauty, started to win awards and drew more tourists to the area, helping Duan's family business to thrive.