The Great Wall of China is a huge engineering marvel and ... This was the start of a long timeline of great wall construction ...

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. Prior to the Qin dynasty ...

Succeeding emperors and dynasties continued the construction ... experiences traveling to various Great Wall sites. “The Great Wall of China,” In Our Time: BBC radio host Melvyn Bragg ...

For a long time, it was thought that the Great Wall was the only human construction visible from ... this was not the case As the report states, "China's long walls and the Eurasian steppe have ...

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 ...

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.