Matt Damon, who is set to take the lead in Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey,' leads the charge in this failed fantasy action ...

The New Seven Wonders of the World represent some of the most iconic and awe-inspiring destinations on the planet, voted by ...

The most intact portion of the Great Wall was constructed during the Ming dynasty, which spanned from 1368 to 1644. This section covers around 5,500 miles in length , according to Britannica.

The UNESCO World Heritage Site was constructed over the course of 2,000 years. It worked as a fortification system to defend ...

The Great Wall of China is one of the oldest, largest, and most celebrated achievements of human ingenuity, but there are still a few things you might not know about China’s ancient landmark.

Rammed earth portions of the Great Wall of China — built by compressing natural materials with soils — have been regarded as a weak point in its structure. But these swaths of the iconic ...

In c. 220 B.C., under Qin Shi Huang, sections of earlier fortifications were joined together to form a united defence system against invasions from the north. Construction continued up to the Ming ...

The total length of the Great Wall is 21196.18 km and the largest man-made project in the world. It stretches from the east seaside to the west desert in northern China, winding up and down across ...

The Great Wall, which acted as a key northern defense for successive Chinese Empires, has a total length of more than 20,000 kilometers (12,427 miles) and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage ...

Along the L.A. River, history reveals itself through paintings of figures and events dating from prehistoric times to the 1950s on The Great Wall of Los Angeles. The more-than-half-mile-long mural ...

Two people have been arrested for allegedly tearing a giant hole through the Great Wall of China with an excavator, likely causing “irreversible” damage — just so they could pass through it ...

Swaths of the Great Wall of China are under siege from erosion. An unlikely “living skin” of organisms, or biocrust, is helping safeguard them.