The Great Wall of China wasn’t a single construction project, but rather a series of defensive and border fortifications linked over hundreds of years under the direction of multiple royal ...

This newly found wall "is, of course, not 'the Great Wall of China,'" Gideon Shelach-Lavi, a professor of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, told Live Science in an email.

The ancient construction still has its secrets.The oldest known part of the Great Wall of China was recently excavated, dating 300 years earlier than the previous record-holding section. This new ...

The Great Wall of China is a series of ancient walls and fortifications that span more than 20,000 kilometers (12,427 miles) across China. It was continuously built over the course of 2,000 years ...

From the 7th century to the 3rd century B.C., Chinese dynasties constructed the 13,171-mile-long Great Wall of China.

4 black-and-white photographs document Edmund Heller's field work during the American Museum of Natural History China Expedition, 1916-1917. Prints are of the Great Wall of China including a gate, ...

The Great Wall spans more than 12,000 miles across northern China. Construction of the massive defensive structure—which has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1987—lasted through the ...