A deluge on the Yellow River 4,000 years ago led to a feat of Bronze Age hydro-engineering. Ancient Chinese legends tell of a catastrophic flood along the Yellow River that led to the founding of the ...

The Great Wall of this period is scarcely mentioned in Chinese literature and records. In the 1970s, archaeologists uncovered sections of the Great Wall constructed by the Western Xia Dynasty during ...

Researchers have provided geological evidence for China's 'Great Flood,' a disastrous event on the Yellow River from which the Xia dynasty is thought to have been born. The flood occurred in roughly ...

Two years of archaeological research at the Xinzhai Ruins of Xinmi City, in central China's Henan Province, has borne fruit. Scientists have basically confirmed this was a large city with three moats ...

Chinese legend tells of a great flood, and how Emperor Yu drove back the floodwaters, founding the Xia dynasty and giving rise to Chinese civilization. Now an international scientific collaboration ...

Archaeologists previously thought the Chinese Xia dynasty mythological, but new evidence suggests otherwise. A new study coauthored by EAPS Professor Darryl Granger, which was published in Science, ...

The cradle of Chinese civilization was long considered to be the region around the middle Yellow River. But recent archaeological discoveries from far-flung corners of China are forcing scientists to ...