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Construction of the Great Wall of China started during the reign of the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, who ruled from ...

The oldest known part of the Great Wall of China was recently excavated, dating 300 years earlier than the previous ...

New research suggests that some sections of the wall were constructed during the Western Zhou dynasty between 1046 and 771 ...

The 8.5-mile-long wall that surrounds Xi’an, touted as one of the best-preserved walled fortifications in China, could be the ... as part of the country’s Great Leap Forward narrative.

The Great Wall was initially built to safeguard ancient China's northern borders. Archaeologists in eastern China have uncovered evidence that some sections of the Great Wall are far older than ...

Among those who walk the Great Wall of China in northern Beijing daily is Liu Hongyan, a 45-year-old resident in Shixia ...

The Great Wall of China wasn’t a single construction project, but rather a series of defensive and border fortifications linked over hundreds of years under the direction of multiple royal ...

Conservatives and liberals alike embraced border closures. U.S. President Donald Trump bragged in his first term that partially closing the U.S. border to China in February 2020 had saved “potentially ...