Skip the crowds at Badaling, and head for Jinshanling, two hours northeast of the capital ... Great Wall was designed for protection, but don’t forget the forts that were another part of China ...
New research suggests that some sections of the wall were constructed during the Western Zhou dynasty between 1046 and 771 ...
The oldest known part of the Great Wall of China was recently excavated, dating 300 years earlier than the previous ...
The Great Wall was initially built to ... found in the Changqing district of Shandong province's capital, includes wall segments from China's Spring and Autumn Period (770–476 BCE)—a time ...