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Posted: June 6, 2025 | Last updated: June 6, 2025 'New Great Wall Of China' Excavated. Archaeologists have been excavating a “new Great Wall of China” that stretches for over 4,000 kilometres.

The average height of the wall is 7.8 meters (25.6 feet), but in some locations, it can be as tall as 14 m (46 ft) in height. The total length of the Great Wall is 21,196.18 km (13,170 miles) long.

This newly found wall "is, of course, not 'the Great Wall of China,'" Gideon Shelach-Lavi, a professor of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, told Live Science in an email.

The Global Times, among others, said that this pushes back the construction of the Great Wall of China back by 300 years. However, experts that Live Science contacted disputed this.

The Great Wall of China is a series of ancient walls and fortifications that span more than 20,000 kilometers (12,427 miles) across China. It was continuously built over the course of 2,000 years ...

The Great Wall spans more than 12,000 miles across northern China. Construction of the massive defensive structure—which has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1987—lasted through the ...

Archaeologists in eastern China have uncovered evidence that some sections of the Great Wall are far older than historians initially believed. Recent studies now suggest the wall dates back about ...

A Chinese tourist walks on a section of the Great Wall near Gubeikou on November 10, 2019, 130 kms northeast of Beijing, China. This section was initially built in the Qi Dynasty (556 AD) and was ...

The study also revealed three distinct construction phases, according to Zhang Su, project leader of the institute. The oldest “Qi” portions dated back to the late Western Zhou Dynasty (1046 B.C.E. to ...

Archaeologists have discovered what is believed to be the oldest known section of the Great Wall of China, stretching its origins back some 300 years earlier than previously thought. The ...