The Great Wall of China is a huge engineering marvel and a symbol of culture. It stretches for 21,196.18 km (about 13,170.70 miles). This incredible structure tells the story of over two thousand ...

Know Before You Go. Insider Tip: The Great Wall was designed for protection, but don’t forget the forts that were another part of China’s defenses.The 16th-century Yaoziyu Fort, for example ...

The Great Wall we know today was constructed – starting in 1474 – under Ming rule, according to the History Channel. These portions of the Great Wall span throughout modern day Beijing ...

The Manchu, or Qing, dynasty (1644-1912), hugely expanded China’s borders northward, making the Great Wall largely unnecessary as a defensive measure.The wall stands as the world’s largest ...

But his greatest fear is losing the Great Wall by losing its history, CBS News correspondent Barry Petersen reports. "Well, right now there are no single academics anywhere in the world, ...

As I climbed, I thought about the wall’s history with a growing sense of unease. Conscripted laborers built the wall, quarrying stones, hauling rubble, spreading mortar, laying bricks.

Along the L.A. River, history reveals itself through paintings of figures and events dating from prehistoric times to the 1950s on The Great Wall of Los Angeles.

The Great Wall, as we know it, started to emerge under the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC). Building this wall was seen as the ultimate solution to minimizing the threat of invasion from the nomads.