A Great Wall excavation in China uncovers the largest known cannon in the Jiankou section and evidence of early cultural ...

Chinese archaeologists uncovered the largest Ming Dynasty cannon ever found during excavations at the Great Wall’s Jiankou section, alongside rare artifacts and ancient structures.

Archaeologist have made a major breakthrough, with the discovery of a new section of the Great Wall of China that suggests the structure is 300 years older than previously thought. Thanks to high tech ...

The Great Wall of China continues to fascinate the world, thousands of years after construction on the massive bulwark first began. This architectural wonder is a historic reminder of what humanity ...

The oldest known part of the Great Wall of China was recently excavated, dating 300 years earlier than the previous record-holding section. This new find is part of the larger oldest part of the Great ...

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 ...

Archaeologists recently excavated an area of the Great Wall known as the Qi wall in China's Shandong Province. Kevin Frayer / Getty Images China’s Great Wall wasn’t built all at once—it was ...

China has never forgotten that all great powers in modern history employed a solid navy tied to their commercial exploits. Beijing is now expanding its maritime reach throughout the South China Sea.

YANGQIANHE TOWNSHIP, China -- Two people have been detained in China after allegedly damaging a section of the Great Wall in the northern Shanxi province, with an excavator. That's according to state ...

The 8.5-mile-long wall that surrounds Xi’an, touted as one of the best-preserved walled fortifications in China, could be the next UNESCO World Heritage site. Millions of people converge on Xi'an ...

As part of the Ming Great Wall – the term refers to the roughly 8,800 km length of the wall built during the Ming dynasty ...