The oldest known part of the Great Wall of China was recently excavated, dating 300 years earlier than the previous ...

Construction of the Great Wall of China started during the reign of the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, who ruled from ...

Kevin Frayer / Getty Images China’s Great Wall wasn’t built all at once—it was constructed and connected over many centuries. Now, new research suggests the earliest known section of the ...

The Great Wall of China stretches for more than 13,000 miles from Dandong in the east to Lop Lake in the west, along an arc which roughly traces the southern edge of Inner Mongolia. It consists of ...

Even walls can evolve. A survey of the oldest section of the Great Wall of China not only bumps back its age by 300 years but shows waves of architectural innovations. The oldest section is in the ...

The Great Wall was built to secure ancient China’s northern borders against nomadic groups from the Eurasian Steppe. Historical records suggest the construction of the Unesco World Heritage ...

Archaeologist have made a major breakthrough, with the discovery of a new section of the Great Wall of China that suggests the structure is 300 years older than previously thought. Thanks to high ...

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 ...

The Great Wall was initially built to safeguard ancient China's northern borders. Archaeologists in eastern China have uncovered evidence that some sections of the Great Wall are far older than ...

Archaeological excavations in eastern China's Shandong province suggest that some of the oldest sections of the Great Wall were built 300 years earlier than previously thought. Recent digs in the ...