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 ...

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.

An ancient Chinese legend tells the story of a hero who saved China from a devastating Great Flood of the Yellow River that left ... went on to establish the Xia Dynasty, the first in China's ...

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 ...

A team of international researchers found that the story behind the Great Floods which led to China's Xia dynasty might actually be true. The picture above shows a view of the Yellow river near ...