700 BCE – 1644 CE · 2 sites
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Longest Recorded History in China
700 BCE – 1644 CE
The vast frontier fortification system of northern China — rammed-earth Qin walls and the iconic stone Ming battlements — remains the single most conspicuous monumental gap left in a global archaeological atlas.
246 BCE – 208 BCE
Life-sized terracotta army buried with China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, to guard him in the afterlife, discovered in 1974 near Xi'an.
