Construction continued up to the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), when the Great Wall became the world's largest military structure. Its historic and strategic importance is matched only by its architectural ...

The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications in China. They were built across the historical northern borders of ...

"The Great Wall impresses everyone who sees it for the first time, from children to adults, from the general tourists to scholars,” says Henry Ng, the manager of the World Monuments Fund’s ...

At Simatai, a two-hour drive from Beijing, there's an access point to the Great Wall, in north Miyun County. Three years ago, I hiked a dirt trail from this site's long-deserted turnstile entrance ...

The Great Wall of China is spectacular in terms of its extent—it stretches over 21,000 kilometers or greater than 12,000 ...

Traffic jams are a daily phenomenon. Luckily, you can get away from it all, because just to the north of the capital lies one stretch of the Great Wall, one of the country’s most popular tourist ...

The first session visits Asia - starting at the Great Wall of China where partners synchronise strong but exhausted building movements before linking up with other pairs to create their own class ...