protecting the city from a land invasion. In 439, a system of sea walls was added to protect the coastline from attack. After a disastrous earthquake in 447, the land walls were rebuilt, this time ...

The 8.5-mile-long wall that surrounds Xi’an, touted as one of the best-preserved walled fortifications in China, could be the ...

A team from the Israel Antiquities Authority and Tel Aviv University uncovered a moat at least nine meters deep and 30 meters wide at the City of David in the Jerusalem Walls National Park.

“It is not known when the moat was first dug ... wall on the upper western slope. While this wall might have also been used to protect the city from the West, its exact age and purpose are ...

When people mention 'wall' in relation to China, they usually refer to the Great Wall of China. But do you know there are ...

The Theodosian Walls protected Constantinople for just over ten centuries until the city fell to the Ottomans in 1453. Yet, the wall survived both the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, with sections of ...

located atop the site of an ancient Ming Dynasty city wall. Next to the site, there is an archaeological dig where archaeologists are excavating an ancient moat from the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

The 82-degree orientation of both the inner and outer cities also turns out to be identical to the newly excavated city ruins ...

The large park stretches from Tian'anmen Rostrum in the south to the Forbidden City moat, and from the East Thousand Bu Corridor before the Imperial Palace in the west to the eastern palace walls ...