Two construction workers damaged a small section of the Great Wall of China, reports BBC. The two enlarged an existing cavity in the World Heritage site with an excavator in order to get to their workplace more quickly.
The Hole in the Wall was dug in Shanxi Province, northeast China.
The two construction workers, a 38-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman, dug the hole so the excavator could get to the job site. According to the police, it was purely to reduce the distance to the workshop.
That shorter route has caused “irreparable damage to the Great Wall and the safety of cultural heritage”, the police said. The two are still in custody.
The Great Wall, which has been on the Unesco World Heritage List since 1987, was built over some eighteen hundred years. The first parts of the Wall were built in 220 BC. Most of it was created during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644).
2023-09-05 08:26:02
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