the wall gradually decayed into ruins. In 1368, the founding year of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu commanded his general Xu Da to direct the reconstruction of the Great Wall. Beginning at the ...

A 400-year-old stone wall once part of Edo Castle, discovered only last year at what is now the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, is likely the castle’s oldest existing remnant ever unearthed ...

Now though, with a little creativity and some help from the technical, historical and architectural experts at Expedia, we can see what seven of the great ancient ruins of the world would have ...

The Great Wall of China has inspired countless works ... wild parts of the wall against a backdrop of mountains, crumbling ...

the forest rises up in a dense wall of grasping roots, spindly branches and veils of brown and green. Beyond it lies the ruins of an old Maya city, barely a 15-minute walk from the busy roadway ...