The 8.5-mile-long wall that surrounds Xi’an, touted as one of the best-preserved walled fortifications in China, could be the ...

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

Two Japanese tourists in their 20s were detained for two weeks in China and then deported for taking photos showing one of ...

This was the longest single wall built in ancient China. After the fall ... pagodas were destroyed some time around the fall of the Yuan Dynasty (1368), the Great Peace Temple (Tai' ansi) was ...

Just north of Beijing, you'll find one of the most famous monuments in the world: the Great Wall of China. Although it's unlikely you'll see the whole thing, you should aim to experience a portion ...

Two Japanese tourists were detained in China for two weeks for taking inappropriate photos at the Great Wall, with a man exposing his buttocks while a woman took pictures. After their detention, they ...

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 ...

The Great Wall was built to secure ancient China’s northern borders against ... largest portions of the first walls were constructed around the 7th century BC and joined together under the ...

Archaeologists in China have discovered a 2,800-year-old fortified wall that predates the country's first emperor. The wall, which runs through a narrow mountain pass in the eastern province of ...

01:28 Great wall of Taklamakan: China surrounds its largest desert with green belt Great wall of Taklamakan: China surrounds its largest desert with green belt His remarks have offered a rare and ...

Archaeologist have made a major breakthrough, with the discovery of a new section of the Great Wall of China that suggests ... wall grew over this period from around 33 feet to 98 feet.

The newly unearthed ruins in the Changqing district of Jinan, East China's Shandong Province, reveal that the earliest known ...