Antiquity DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2025.49 Before the Great Wall, Chinese rulers built a shallow ditch Archaeologists excavate part of the medieval wall system in Mongolia Gideon Shelach-Lavi et al. 2025 ...

The Great Wall of China is unparalleled in terms of magnificence and popularity. Interestingly, though it is not the only system guarding China's frontiers, according to New Scientist.

But wait. Is that duct tape? The video, released this week and shown below, showcases XBot-L which, the company claims, is the first humanoid to climb the Great Wall of China.

Hungry tourists hiking on the Great Wall of China can now get their lunch delivered – from the air. Chinese food delivery giant Meituan says its new drone service, announced last week, will ...

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 ...

The Great Wall of China spans many thousands of kilometres, the longest stretch running some 8850 kilometres. This part dates from the Ming dynasty (AD 1368 to 1644) and served as a physical ...