The Great Wall of China: 2,000 Years of Building
The Great Wall of China is not a single unbroken ancient wall, but a succession of northern frontier fortifications — earthen ramparts, stone-and-brick battlements, beacon towers, and defensive ditches — built across northern China by rival kingdoms and imperial dynasties…
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