The first sections of China’s Great Wall were built in the 5th century BC, but that was only the first of three distinct building phases, each with its own architectural style, He explained.

The Great Wall of China is one of the oldest, largest, and most celebrated achievements of human ingenuity, ... China first took note of the wall’s wide appeal in the 19th century, ...

The Great Wall of China's long legacy. ... The Far West Located in a desert area of Gansu, the Jiayuguan is the first gate at the wall’s western end. Built as a border fort in 1372, ...

Construction on the Great Wall began in the third-century BCE under Qin Shi Huang (Shihuangdi), the first emperor of a unified China, the History Channel reports.

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 snakes along a ridge in front of me, its towers and ramparts creating a panorama that could have been lifted from a Ming dynasty scroll.

The biggest question looming over the South China Sea is what kind of power China wants to be. The colossal failure of the Great Wall provides a history lesson.

In the 1980s, Dong Yao-hui was part of the first three-person team to walk the entire length of China’s Great Wall. Find out how he did it and how he’s focused on its preservation today.

The Great Wall of China was constructed over centuries, from the first millennia B.C. to the 17th century A.D. It consists of numerous fortifications, with one section of the wall called “The ...