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

Remnant of the Great Wall dated to the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) in Dunhuang SUN ZHIJUN/FOR CHINA DAILY/TONG YUNSHAN/CHINA DAILY Nowhere in the Hexi Corridor does a traveler feel closer to those ...

Archaeologists are gripped by something new about the Great Wall of China, which spans 12,000 miles and was constructed over millennia.

220 B.C., under Qin Shi Huang ... strategisch en architectonisch opzicht. The Great Wall was continuously built from the 3rd century BC to the 17th century AD on the northern border of the country as ...

Researchers from the Han and Ming Great Wall conservation and research center ... times — one dates back to the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) and the other to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).

Leitai Han Tomb in Wuwei, a 15th-century shrine dedicated to the God of Thunder, sits right atop a tomb dated to around the late 2nd and early 3rd centuries. COURTESY OF GANSU PROVINCIAL MUSEUM AND ...

In 1968, when Rawson joined the British Museum, she was tasked with cataloging probably thousands of ceramics and jades from ...

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.

The Japanese public has reacted with outrage and horror over reports that two 20-something tourists from their country were detained in China after one bared his buttocks on the Great Wall 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 ...

Two Japanese tourists were detained for two weeks and subsequently deported from China after taking a controversial photo at the Great Wall of China, local media reported. The incident involved a ...

By Stephen AsanteGNA Special Correspondent, Beijing, ChinaBeijing, March 23, GNA – The Chinese have a famous saying that: “He who does not reach the Great Wall is no hero.”In truism, this maxim, ...