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.

The 8.5-mile-long wall that surrounds Xi’an, touted as one of the best-preserved walled fortifications in China, could be the next UNESCO World Heritage site.

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 ...

Remnant of the Great Wall dated to the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) in Dunhuang SUN ZHIJUN/FOR CHINA DAILY/TONG YUNSHAN/CHINA DAILY Nowhere in the Hexi Corridor does a traveler feel closer to those ...

The Global Times, among others, said that this pushes back the construction of the Great Wall of China back by 300 years. However, experts that Live Science contacted disputed this. (Live Science ...

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 ...

The Government of China requested the World Heritage Centre to undertake a mission to evaluate the state of conservation of five cultural World Heritage sites. The Great Wall, which is over 50,000 km.

Archaeologists in China have discovered a 2,800-year-old fortified wall that predates the country's first emperor. The wall, which runs through a narrow mountain pass in the eastern province of ...

Just north of Beijing, you'll find one of the most famous monuments in the world: the Great Wall of China. Although it's unlikely you'll see the whole thing, you should aim to experience a portion ...