To walk along the Seoul City Wall is to walk in the footsteps of scholars of bygone centuries, trace scars of war and take in the modern behemoth of a city built around it all. Its history ...

John H. Bryan, inside the fort once its plaster walls had been removed to reveal the log below. Courtesy John H. Bryan. 14. ... a log fortress dating to the American Revolution.

The fortress is known as Khar Nuur and was part of a long wall that extended throughout the countryside. It was built sometime between the 10th and 12th centuries during the Kitan Liao Empire.

A sprawling 3,500-year-old fortress offers tantalizing clues about a culture that once dotted the southern Caucasus mountains with similar walled communities. Archaeologists recently used a drone ...

For nearly 650 years, the fortress walls in the Chinese city of Xi’an have served as a formidable barrier around the central city. At 12 meters high and up to 18 meters thick, they are ...

Azerbaijan is filled with an array of castles and fortresses, a legacy of the many kingdoms and dynasties that have occupied this spot at the frontier of Europe and Asia.

A small stone-built fortress (F41), located north of the wall on one of the roads that crosses the wall line. Credit: Tal Rogovski. The study reveals that the wall and its garrison complexes were ...