To connect worlds, one had to protect them. The Han emperors understood this, and the Great Wall was built over 11,000 ...

Three years ago, I hiked a dirt trail from this site's long-deserted turnstile entrance and scaled the wall's steep, crumbling steps. I felt I was conquering, not climbing, the Great Wall.

“The wild sections there are overgrown and crumbling and the ruins give one a sense of how ancient and great this civilization is.” Insider Tip: The Great Wall was designed for ...

Estimated at 100-plus years old, if the wall gives way, the utilities under the street — which service about 2,000 people in the area — will be damaged, officials said.

archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii came across a still-life painting of something resembling the pizza of today-just without the cheese and tomatoes-on the crumbling wall of an ...