The Great Wall of China continues to fascinate the world, thousands of years after construction on the massive bulwark first ...

Built over a period of 2,000 years, the wall traverses China from east to west, coursing more than 5,500 miles, depending on how you measure it.

Brief History of the Great Wall of China The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications built to protect Chinese states from invasions and raids.

The Great Wall of China may be even older than we once thought. Newly discovered ruins in Shandong province – home to some of its oldest sections – suggest that parts of the grand structure ...

The Great Wall of China was built to defend the empire from enemy armies, but now it acts as a unifying symbol and a useful propaganda tool for the ruling Communist Party.

The Great Wall was the result of this haphazard defense policy. The tragedy is that the Ming’s big, beautiful wall failed to fulfill its sole mission: to protect China from invasion.

Hundreds of years before the Great Wall of China started going up to protect the Qin Dynasty against invasion, the first great wall of China—the Qi wall—was built. In and around 500 BC, the Qi ...

The Great Wall of China, built more than 2,000 years ago, stands as one of the monumental feats of ancient engineering. Stretching thousands of miles, it protected the newly unified country from ...

Test your knowledge of the Great Wall of China with this quiz! Explore facts about its construction, purpose, length, key dynasties, and global recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Ming Dynasty's big, beautiful Great Wall failed to fulfill its sole mission: to protect China from invasion, writes Beijing-based journalist Michael Schuman.

The Great Wall was built to a great degree by default, by a political system too paralyzed by infighting to come up with anything better. Border security had been a preoccupation of China’s ...