Secrets of the mysterious Gobi wall uncovered

Secrets of a Lost Empire’s Mysterious 200-Mile "Gobi Wall" Finally Revealed

In the vast, wind-swept wilderness of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, a nearly 200-mile-long wall has long stood as a silent testament to a bygone era. Known as the “Gobi Wall,” this enigmatic structure has puzzled historians and archaeologists for decades.  Now, research led by an international team of scientists sheds new light on the wall’s origins, construction, and purpose, revealing it as a sophisticated instrument of imperial strategy of the medi…

Secrets of the mysterious Gobi wall uncovered

A new study sheds new light on one of the least understood segments of medieval Inner Asian infrastructure: the Gobi Wall.

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Secrets of the mysterious Gobi wall revealed: archaeologists uncover imperial purpose behind 200-mile structure

In Mongolia’s Gobi Desert is a 321-kilometer-long wall that, until recently, was one of East Asia’s least understood components of medieval infrastructure. Called the Gobi Wall, this enormous structure has mystified archaeologists for decades. But new research, published in the journal Land, is now giving valuable information about its construction, purpose, and historical context, redrawing the wall not as a simple defense fortification, but as…

The mysterious Wall of the Gobi, a poorly studied medieval infrastructure of Inner Asia, acted not only as a barrier against invaders, but as a means of commercial and territorial control.

The Wall of the Gobi is a system of walls and fortifications that extends along 321 kilometers through the deserts between China and Mongolia, and whose origins, function and historical context had remained unknown to the scholars of the medieval civilizations of Inner Asia. Now a study led by [...]