What Makes the Great Wall of China so Extraordinary?

The Great Wall Of China is a 13,000-mile dragon of earth and stone that winds its way through the countryside of China. As it turns out, the wall’s history is almost as long and serpentine as its structure.

Megan Campisi and Pen-Pen Chen detail the building and subsequent decay of this massive, impressive wall.

A 13,000 mile dragon of earth and stone winds its way through the countryside of China with a history almost as long and serpentine as the structure.

The Great Wall began as multipl...