China's Great Wall has been pierced by Genghis Khan, the Manchus, and now, allegedly, a couple of construction workers named Zheng and Wang who wanted a shortcut.
Authorities in China arrested two people for smashing a path through a section of the ancient wall, a cultural icon and United Nations protected heritage site.
The government of Youyu County, hundreds of kilometers west of Beijing showed a dirt road cut through a section of the wall against a rural landscape, along with the two suspects, identified as a 38-year-old man surnamed Zheng and a 55-year-old woman surnamed Wang. The section lies in Shanxi province at the western extreme of the wall, parts of which was constructed 2,000 years ago. It's relatively well preserved and holds "important preservation and research value," the local government said.
In that year, Manchu tribespeople from the north overcame China’s defenses and took over the empire as the Qing dynasty.
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