Archaeologists are gripped by something new about the Great Wall of China, which spans 12,000 miles and was constructed over ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what is now considered the oldest section of the Great Wall in Shandong Province, shifting its ...

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

Construction continued up to the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), when the Great Wall became the world's largest military structure. Its historic and strategic importance is matched only by its architectural ...

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

A recent archaeological discovery in Shandong province, China, has pushed back the start date of the construction of the Great Wall by 300 years. The excavation, which took place between May and ...

"The Great Wall impresses everyone who sees it for ... Succeeding emperors and dynasties continued the construction, spreading westward into the Gobi desert to guard the Silk Road.

"This archaeological discovery pushes the construction date of the Great Wall back to the Western Zhou period, establishing it as the earliest known Great Wall in China," Liu Zheng, a member of ...

Recent digs in the Changqing area show that the engineering marvel wasn’t a single construction project, but a series of fortifications built during multiple dynasties. The Great Wall was built ...

The newly unearthed ruins in the Changqing district of Jinan, East China's Shandong Province, reveal that the earliest known sections of the Great Wall date back to the late Western Zhou Dynasty (1046 ...

These findings come from the very first systematic archaeological study of the Great Wall’s earliest sections, bringing to light new insight into the ancient monument’s age, construction ...

The Global Times, among others, said that this pushes back the construction of the Great Wall of China back by 300 years. However, experts that Live Science contacted disputed this. (Live Science ...