A new study suggests that the northern section of the Great Wall of China wasn't actually built to as a defense against ...

Counted as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Great Wall of China has survived the test of time, having been built some 2,500 years ago. The Great Wall, a monumental military defense ...

China has finished building a 3,046km green wall around the Taklimakan Desert. It is part of a much larger project to keep ...

Early sections of the wall were built from layers of rammed earth ... traveling to various Great Wall sites. “The Great Wall of China,” In Our Time: BBC radio host Melvyn Bragg discusses ...

According to legend, the Great Wall was built by the first ... This was the longest single wall built in ancient China. After the fall of the Han Dynasty, the wall gradually decayed into ruins.

The Taklimakan, nicknamed the "Sea of Death," is China's largest desert. The work to enclose it is part of the larger ...

It is due to be completed by 2050, when it will have formed an “unbreakable green Great Wall”, according to government plans. China boasts that the scheme has already been a great success and ...

In 2018, a BBC team flew over the disputed South China Sea islands in a US military ... Admiral Harry Harris once referred to this as the "Great Wall of Sand" - a "nine-dash line" creating a ...

Just north of Beijing, you'll find one of the most famous monuments in the world: the Great Wall of China. Although it's unlikely you'll see the whole thing, you should aim to experience a portion ...

The Great Wall of China may look empty on Instagram, but it's often extremely crowded. On April 1st, it was packed because of a holiday. It looked terrible. Story and editing by Jeremy Dreyfuss ...

Ordinarily I might have paused to catch my breath, but hiking up to the Great Wall of China is never an ordinary affair. Its silhouetted battlements running along the skyline spur me on.