Some sections of Great Wall of China in Shandong Province are 300 years older than previously believed, according to recent excavations. Those ancient sections date back to the late Zhou Dynasty (1046 ...

The Great Wall stretches over 13,000 miles across the northern borders of China and was built over centuries by China's emperors to protect their territory. Recent scientific analysis of plant ...

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 ...

Engineers in China "irreparably" damaged the Great Wall of China while trying to find a "shortcut" for their business, according to local reports. "Excavators were used to excavate the original gap of ...

(CNN) — Rammed earth portions of the Great Wall of China — built by compressing natural materials with soils — have been regarded as a weak point in its structure. But these swaths of the iconic ...

Heavy snowfall transformed the Great Wall of China into a slippery spectacle on January 17, 2026. Tourists were seen crawling and sliding on the icy paths at the Badaling section. Despite warnings, ...

A study published this month in peer-reviewed journal Science Advances has found that “living skins” are protecting parts of China’s Great Wall from the elements. “Biocrusts Protect the Great Wall of ...