Here’s how it works. Large swaths of the Great Wall of China are held together thanks to "biocrusts," thin layers of organic materials that have helped protect the architectural marvel from erosion.

3. The Great Wall of China contains a surprising ingredient. The Great Wall is largely crafted from unremarkable building materials like earth and stone. More interestingly, glutinous rice—known ...

Long Before the Chinese Built the Great Wall of China, They Built a Shallow Ditch Across the Steppes of China and Mongolia ...

Archaeologists have been excavating a “new Great Wall of China” that stretches for over 4,000 kilometres. The excavations on a medieval frontier garrison in Mongolia are flipping everything we thought ...

Engineers in China "irreparably" damaged the Great Wall of China while trying to find a "shortcut" for their business, according to local reports. "Excavators were used to excavate the original ...

Each has its own rich history, with several known as "Wonders of the World." The Great Wall of China is part of that list. The extensive structure was built over millennia by various Chinese ...