Construction continued up to the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), when the Great Wall became the world's largest military structure. Its historic and strategic importance is matched only by its architectural ...

Archaeologists are gripped by something new about the Great Wall of China, which spans 12,000 miles and was constructed over millennia.

This was the start of a long timeline of great wall construction that showed how Chinese society changed over time. In the Han dynasty (202 BCE – 220 CE), the wall grew longer as the empire ...

"The Great Wall impresses everyone who sees it for ... Succeeding emperors and dynasties continued the construction, spreading westward into the Gobi desert to guard the Silk Road.

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 ...

"This archaeological discovery pushes the construction date of the Great Wall back to the Western Zhou period, establishing it as the earliest known Great Wall in China," Liu Zheng, a member of ...

Located 160 km southeast of Yumen Pass, Jiayu Pass marks the western end of the Ming Great Wall. Nearly 80 percent of the ...

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 ...