The Great Wall China Inscribed :1987 Criteria: C (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (vi) Justification for Inscription: Report of the 11th Session of the Committee Brief description: In about 220 B.C., under Qin Shin Huang, sections of fortifications which had been built earlier were joined together to form a united defence system against invasions from the north. Construction continued up to the Ming dynasty ...

The earth moving equipment included buckets and wheeled carts; intelligence created monuments to last the ages. A short history of the Great Wall and the Ming Tombs. -- links to Beijing, Xi'an and Shanghai ...