An aerial drone photo taken on June 21, 2025 shows the Tianshengcheng section of the Great Wall in Guyang County, north China ...

A stone carving that some scholars believe dates back more than 2,200 years and could carry major cultural significance has ...

An aerial drone photo taken on June 21, 2025 shows the Tianshengcheng section of the Great Wall in Guyang County, north China ...

For generations, a popular belief has held that the Great Wall of China is the only human-made marvel visible from space. But ...

Successive dynasties expanded the wall system; the best-known sections were built by the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). The total length of the Great Wall is 21196.18 km and the largest man-made ...

The oldest known part of the Great Wall of China was recently excavated, dating 300 years earlier than the previous record-holding section. This new find is part of the larger oldest part of the ...

But the newfound fortification is not part of the Great Wall of Qi, either, as that was built later, in around 441 B.C., Yuri Pines, a professor of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of ...

Archaeological excavations in eastern China's Shandong province suggest that some of the oldest sections of the Great Wall were built 300 years earlier than previously thought.. Recent digs in the ...

Archaeologists have unearthed what is believed to be the earliest section of the Great Wall of China. It pushes back the estimated origins of the wall by 300 years.

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 ...

During the Han dynasty, (between 202 B.C.E. and 220 C.E.) the Great Wall was extended to protect the Silk Road trade. The Ming dynasty is known for not only extending the Great Wall, but also ...