The land that is now China was not always united as one state. There used to be separate states, and during the earliest days of Qi wall construction, the Zhou Dynasty ruled over them. This was an ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...