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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Thousands of years ago, the legend goes, an ancient people living along the banks of the Yellow River in northern China experienced a flood unlike any before it. The waters inundated communities and ...

SHANGHAI — A jade dagger inscribed with a dragon and phoenix pattern. A plaque inlaid with a turquoise animal mask. An owl-shaped wine goblet that once belonged to the wife of Wu Ding, one of China’s ...