Archaeologists have excavated a medieval frontier garrison in Mongolia, suggesting some monumental walls on the Eurasian ...

Researchers used remote sensing, pedestrian surveys, and targeted excavations to determine the Gobi Wall's origins, maker, ...

The Great Wall of China is the best-known strip of fortifications in East Asia, if not the world. But just a few days’ horse ...

In the wide-open steppe of eastern Mongolia, archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a very long wall. This isn’t China’s ...

Learn more about the Mongolian Arc, a section of medieval wall that is changing how we understand the ancient populations of ...

But it turns out there’s another, lesser-known system of walls that stretches across parts of China, Mongolia, and Russia—and ...

Various dynasties worked on the 2,485-mile-long (4,000-km) MWS, such as the Jin dynasty (1115 to 1234 CE), whose empire ...

The 321 km long wall in the Mongolian Gobi desert, erected in the XI-XIII centuries AD, was not only a defensive rampart, but ...

New research reveals the Gobi Wall was more than a medieval defense—uncovering its role as a strategic tool of control for ...

Their findings, recently published in the journal Antiquity, focus on a little-known section of the Medieval Wall System and reveal that the main function of this section was not military defense.

A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been ...