On this day in 1938, the Yellow River experienced a major flood during the Second Sino-Japanese War when the Chinese Nationalist government deliberately destroyed the dikes along the river to halt the ...

Nearly 4,000 years ago, a landslide sent boulders and sediment tumbling into a valley of the Yellow River ... great flood that paved the way for the Xia, China’s semi-mythical first dynasty.

Flooding in the Yellow River of China over 20 centuries is being blamed on anti-flooding campaigns carried out there by ancient people. The Yellow River is known as the cradle of Chinese ...

OSLO (Reuters) - The crushed skeletons of children point to an earthquake and catastrophic flood on ... Stone Age along the Yellow River. Some historians doubt the Xia dynasty existed, reckoning ...

New evidence of an ancient Yellow River flood “provides a tantalizing hint that the Xia dynasty actually existed,” Cohen said. Wu’s team studied remains of a landslide dam along the Yellow ...

Over 300 ancient tombs from the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-AD25 ... situated near the Yellow River, was heavily affected by flooding. This excavation provided valuable evidence for studying ...

For thousands of years, nature has been blamed for the deadly floods of China's Yellow River ... flood between 14-17 AD, which may have triggered the collapse of the Western Han Dynasty.

ZHENGZHOU -- The Yellow River is likely to flood this rainy season from July to October, the China Meteorological Administration has warned. Rainfall was expected to increase by 20 to 50 percent ...