The two mile long wall was built around the ancient city of Uxmal—located in the Yucatan Peninsula—in order to protect the elite from invaders, according to Jose Huchim Herrera, the director ...

The ancient city of Elengubu, known today as Derinkuyu, in Turkey was discovered when a man knocked down the basement wall to catch his chickens.

The city’s 13-kilometer-long City Wall, which measures 12 meters high and 5 meters wide, plays host to an annual light show as part of Lunar New Year celebrations.

A tourist was detained in Italy over the weekend when he was caught carving his name into a wall in the ancient city of Pompeii — and he’s been ordered to pay for its restoration, officials said.

FIFTY years ago, when China's newly triumphant revolutionaries proposed demolishing Beijing's ancient city wall, Lin Huiyin was appalled. “It will be an irreversible mistake,” the architect ...