but also to protect the beginnings of the Silk Road—a trade route with branches that spread from China through the Middle East and all the way to ancient Rome. The Great Wall took two millennia ...

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.

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 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 ...

To connect worlds, one had to protect them. The Han emperors understood this, and the Great Wall was built over 11,000 ...

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

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 ...

After a spring snowfall, the Jinshanling section of the Great Wall in Luanping County, Chengde City of north China's Hebei ...

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 ...