The Great Wall of China traces its origins back to the fifth century B.C. during the Warring States Period. Each of the ...

Humans Before the Great Wall, Chinese rulers built a shallow ditch A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been ...

Various dynasties worked on the 2,485-mile-long (4,000-km) MWS, such as the Jin dynasty (1115 to 1234 CE), whose empire included modern-day North China and regions of Inner Asia.

Around 2,200 years ago, ancient China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, began connecting many small walls to build the now-famous Great Wall of China. It eventually became over 13,000 miles (20,000 ...