What is commonly referred to as the Great Wall of China is actually four great walls rather than a single, continuous wall. The oldest section of one of the four Great Walls of China was begun in 221 B.C., not long after China was unified into an...

The best-known work of Chinese civil engineering is the Great Wall, a line of fortifications extending for more than 6,324 kilometers, if all the branch walls are counted, and 3,460 kilometers, if the main line alone is measured. As was customary, the...

The Great Wall of China (simplified Chinese: 长城; traditional Chinese: 長城; pinyin: Chángchéng; literally "Long wall") or (simplified Chinese: 万里长城; traditional Chinese: 萬里長城;...

THE magnificent T'ang dynasty murals illustrated here were almost certainly illegally excavated near China's former capital, Chang-an, and were probably smuggled out of China some time in the last 15 years. They were acquired in Hong Kong last year by Gisele Croes, a Brussels...

On your first visit to Beijing, you can't help but be impressed by two things: the wealth of history and the extensive development that is taking place. On subsequent visits to Beijing, you can't help but be amused at the continuing development...

Western sections of the Great Wall of China are being reduced to "mounds of dirt" by sandstorms and may disappear entirely in 20 years, a report said Wednesday.The reasons for the deterioration are entirely manmade, the official Xinhua News Agency said, pointing to destructive farming...

Egypt has refused to allow Portugal to feature its ancient Pyramids of Giza on postage stamps the European country wants to issue coinciding with a global contest to name the seven new wonders of the world.Zahi Hawass, the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities,...

The Great Wall of China, although built as a defensive structure, was not effective as such. It has since become a powerful visual emblem of China's identity in the Western imagination.