The Great Wall of China is a huge engineering marvel and a symbol of culture. It stretches for 21,196.18 km (about 13,170.70 ...

A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been erected to control the flow of people, perhaps for tax reasons ...

At 641 kilometres, The Great Wall of Qi is also the longest section of the Great Wall – though not one that is well known nor ...

The most intact portion of the Great Wall was constructed during the Ming dynasty, which spanned from 1368 to 1644. This section covers around 5,500 miles in length , according to Britannica.

The UNESCO World Heritage Site was constructed over the course of 2,000 years. It worked as a fortification system to defend ...

Great Wall Hiking offers the Jinshanling day trip for $136 per person. Both tours last about nine hours, and reservations in advance of your arrival in Beijing are recommended.

The Great Wall is a marvel of engineering and triumph of human ingenuity, but the verdict is out on how well it worked at its primary function: keeping people out. Northern Aggression.

Swaths of the Great Wall of China are under siege from erosion. An unlikely “living skin” of organisms, or biocrust, is helping safeguard them.