We stand nearly 4,000 twisting miles from where the Great Wall begins in China's western deserts—and only 40 miles from where it plunges into the Bohai Sea, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea ...

Constructed over a period of 2,000 years, the stone sentry actually consists of many great walls, some dating back to the fifth century B.C. The first emperor of China ... wall, from the Yellow ...

the earliest known part of the Great Wall of China. This wall extends nearly 400 miles to Qingdao on the Yellow Sea. Alongside the ancient wall, archaeologists also discovered subterranean ...

The Great Wall spans more than 12,000 miles across northern China. Construction of the massive defensive structure—which has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1987—lasted through the ...