While digging, researchers found cliffs on both sides of what they believed to be a large moat ... wall on the upper western slope. While this wall might have also been used to protect the city ...

But this month, all eyes are on another one of its historic sites – the Xi’an City Wall, said to be one of the world’s most impressive remaining traditional defense systems and one of the ...

The carved hand in the moat ... city walls, probably dating from the tenth century CE and possibly earlier, was exposed. An unexplained hand imprint was discovered at one spot, carved in the moat ...