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

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

In 2006, the Han and Ming walls were designated a national key cultural relic protection unit, and the county was chosen as a ...

Archaeologists in China have discovered a 2,800-year-old fortified wall that predates the country's first emperor. The wall, which runs through a narrow mountain pass in the eastern province of ...

In c. 220 B.C., under Qin Shi Huang, sections of earlier fortifications were joined together to form a united defence system against invasions from the north. Construction continued up to the Ming ...

when the state of Qin conquered all other states and established the Qin dynasty. The famous Great Wall of China actually consists of multiple fortifications, built in a piecemeal fashion between ...

The Qi Great Wall, a precursor to the famous Ming Dynasty ... of the Qi state long before China’s unification under the Qin Dynasty. The team also identified the ancient settlement of Pingyin ...

The Great Wall was built to secure ancient China’s ... around the 7th century BC and joined together under the Qin dynasty around the third century BC. However, new excavations undertaken ...