They find a new stretch of the Big Wall in the center of China

A new stretch of the Big Wall China, of more ancient that they survive, it has been found in the Chinese central Henan province, informed today the official agency Xinhua.

The stretch measures approximately 137 kilometers, of which 30 are in the good state, and the structure dates of the age of the Fighting States, about the IInd century B.C., stood out the spokesman of the Bureau of Cultural heritage of the province.

The structure would have been constructed by the Kingdom of Chu, one of those that a few years later it would be unified by others of the region to create the first close empire of China, during the dynasty Qin.

The target of his construcciónLa Big Wall in strict sense formed in these years, by order of the First Chinese Emperor, Qin Shihuang, joining the stretches that diverse kingdoms and tribes of the area had constructed from the VIIth century B.C. to defend themselves from the nearby peoples, principally the nomads of the north of Asia.

Some of the most ancient stretches are in the provinces of Henan and Hubei, hundreds of kilometers more on the south that the most famous and visited of the monument, in Peking and other areas next to the current Mongolia.

Route: EFE

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