Wonderwall The Wall of China

Almost everyone has heard of the Great Wall of China, a monument doesn’t become a Wonder of the World without being renowned far and wide. Made in China’ is not a bad thing. Started in around 700 BC and completed near 200 BC, it is a grand tribute to architecture that has withstood the test of time.

Most people’s knowledge regarding the wall is limited to its incredible span - around 5500 miles – or that it was built to protect China from invasion. However there are other interesting tidbits about this great spectacle that the Chinese constructed.
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The construction in itself is wondrous, huge rocks and stones were used as anyone with proper vision can tell you. What is of interest is what held such huge rocks together. Rice. Rice in the form of a sticky soup mixed with mortar was used as a type of glue. This concoction worked really well as one can imagine.

The Wall is not of a uniform height as some might think. Actually it varies quite a bit along its length – at some places it’s a mere centimeters above the ground, whereas at others it rises to an impressive 30 feet in the air.

You can probably guess that a lot of people visit the Great Wall. You’d be surprised at the actual number. Around 20 million people visit it annually with the number growing each year.

One of the more morbid facts is that it’s also known as the ‘longest cemetery in the world’. This is because a lot of workers died during its construction. One myth goes that the bones of the perished workers are mixed in the mortar within the wall.