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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

to the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) there have been more than 300,000 poems hailing the mother river. "Living and growing up by its side, the Yellow River means a lot to me," says the 67-year-old ...