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Handai Great Wall Relic Site, China
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Remnants of the Great Wall, including a beacon tower, from the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) in the Gobi Desert northwest of Dunhuang—and more than 380 km/240 miles farther west than the Ming dynasty (1368-1644 CE) Great Wall. [Looking east. Barbarians came from the north (left).]
The Great Wall was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.
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