New Portions of Great Wall Remains Re-draw Wall’s Path

the Great Wall

Archaeologists in northwest China have found what they believe to be previously undiscovered portions of the Great Wall that ultimately re-shape the northwestern border of the wall. 

These ruins are the first discovery of sections of the Great Wall in China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Gansu Province. 

The stone and sediment remains are believed to have been built during the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC) and stretch more than six miles between Nanchangtan Village in Ningxia and Jingyuan County in Gansu on the southern banks of the Yellow River. 

Centuries of flooding and erosion had reduced the height of these sections of the Great Wall down to 3-16 feet from their original height. 

These recent discoveries help historians – and visitors to China – have a better sense of the Wall’s borders throughout China and understand the full scope of one of the world’s earliest man-made defenses.