The Great Wall stretches over 13,000 miles across the northern borders of China and was built over centuries by China's emperors to protect their territory. Recent scientific analysis of plant ...
When people picture the Great Wall of China, they often imagine stone fortifications snaking over mountains north of Beijing. A quiet discovery in Shandong Province has rewritten that timeline.
One of the innumerable legends surrounding the construction of the Great Wall of China tells of a workman who estimated that he would need 99,999 bricks to construct a section of the wall now known as ...