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 find is part of the larger oldest part of the Great ...

The Great Wall of China, an enduring emblem of ancient civilization ... Wall's significance as "a cultural symbol of China and Chinese civilization," as noted by Bo Xiao, finding effective ...

The remarkable find, located in Changqing District, within the capital city of the Chinese province of ... of between 1046 and 771 BCE. The Great Wall of China stretches for more than 13,000 ...

The Great Wall was initially built to safeguard ancient China's northern ... is the "earliest known Great Wall in China", said Liu Zheng, a member of the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics.

From the start, the Han court encouraged migration to the corridor and had stationed troops to cultivate the land — a strategy that not only reinforced territorial control but also advanced ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what is now considered the oldest section of the Great Wall in Shandong Province, shifting its ...

Here, on this album, she plays ancient and modern Chinese compositions ... BBC radio host Melvyn Bragg discusses the Great Wall of China with Chinese historians in this episode of In Our Time.

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.

But it was expanded during the Warring States period (circa 475 to 221 B.C.) to be about 100 feet (30 m) wide, the Chinese news ... construction of the Great Wall of China back by 300 years.

establishing it as the earliest known Great Wall in China," Liu Zheng, a member of the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics, told the Global Times. "It marks a significant breakthrough in Great Wall ...