The Great Wall of China is unparalleled in terms of magnificence and popularity. Interestingly, though it is not the only ...

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, ...

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

Credit: Antiquity/Gideon Shelach-Lavi et al/Dan Golan/Cover Images Archaeologists have been excavating a “new Great Wall of China” that stretches for over 4,000 kilometres. The excavations on a ...

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 ...

A new study sheds new light on one of the least understood segments of medieval Inner Asian infrastructure: the Gobi Wall.

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.

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

New archaeological findings along a little-known medieval wall in eastern Mongolia reveal that frontier life was more complex than previously ...