Ancient Engineering That Defied Time The Great Wall stretches over 13,000 miles across the northern borders of China and was ...

One of the innumerable legends surrounding the construction of the Great Wall of China tells of a workman who estimated that he would need 99,999 bricks to construct a section of the wall now known as ...

Two thousand years old and still standing strong. From above, the Great Wall of China stretches like a living thread through mountains and mist, a masterpiece of endurance and imagination. It is the ...

Long before the Great Wall of China was constructed, other monumental walls were built across the Eurasian steppes – but they weren’t designed to defend against Mongol armies. Recent excavations ...