Late Great Wall.(preserving the Great Wall of China)

From: Newsweek International | Date: August 5, 2002| Author: Liu, Melinda; Mooney, Paul; Shih, June | Copyright information

The Great Wall of China can't quite match the myths that have grown up around it. Still, the truth is astonishing enough. The Chinese call it the Long Wall of 10,000 Miles--an exaggeration, even though its actual length would stretch from Paris to Karachi. The wall wasn't built 2,000 years ago, as some sources claim, and yet a few parts are centuries older. In fact, it's really not a single wall at all, but a tangle of parallel and proximate fortifications. The pieces weren't organ...

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