Posted: June 6, 2025 | Last updated: June 6, 2025 'New Great Wall Of China' Excavated. Archaeologists have been excavating a “new Great Wall of China” that stretches for over 4,000 kilometres.

The Great Wall of China stretches for more than 13,000 miles from Dandong in the east to Lop Lake in the west, along an arc which roughly traces the southern edge of Inner Mongolia.

Various dynasties worked on the 2,485-mile-long (4,000-km) MWS, such as the Jin dynasty (1115 to 1234 CE), whose empire included modern-day North China and regions of Inner Asia.

Around 2,200 years ago, ancient China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, began connecting many small walls to build the now-famous Great Wall of China. It eventually became over 13,000 miles (20,000 ...