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

"The Great Wall impresses everyone who sees it ... spreading westward into the Gobi desert to guard the Silk Road. All together, the walls may have stretched more than 30,000 miles.

Over time, the Great Wall of China would not just be used for military defense, but also to protect the beginnings of the Silk Road—a trade route with branches that spread from China through the ...

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.

a friend asks upon seeing my photos from a recent trip to China, where I hiked on the Great Wall (and ... across borders on the Silk Route. The height of the Wall varies, going from 15 ft.

The Havighurst Center focused on the historical and contemporary cultures of the Silk ... the Great crossed the Indus River into Central Asia, Chinese silk had already found its way to the ...

On the eve of Beijing’s May 2017 Summit on its New Silk Road strategy and plans ... That equates to the U.S. Great Depression. The worst case scenario would be a 41% cut in Afghan GDP.

According to legend, the Great Wall was built by the first emperor of ... A new 4,000-meter-long pathway has been constructed from the road. It can also be reached by cable car.

Traffic jams are a daily phenomenon. Luckily, you can get away from it all, because just to the north of the capital lies one stretch of the Great Wall, one of the country’s most popular tourist ...

Remnant of the Great Wall dated to the Han Dynasty (206 ... Raw jade once traveled through the corridor, part of the ancient Silk Road, to workshops where it was transformed into exquisite ritual ...