A group of scientists has found evidence of a great flood that occurred 4,000 years ago in the Yellow River valley that would give veracity to the founding myth of China’s first dynasty, the Xia, according to a study released by the journal Science.
So far, other research had documented the second and third Chinese dynasty, the Shang and Zhou, but Xia was still under legend to the point that questioned I had really existed.
According to the founding legend, the founder of the Xia Dynasty, Emperor Yu, drained floodwaters would thus enabling land for agriculture and kicking Chinese civilization.
A study of Peking University published today in the journal Science revealed details of the supposed great flood would have occurred about the year 1,920 B.C. It caused by an earthquake that led to the Yellow River to form a dam in the canyon of Jishi.
That dam gave way and subsequent flooding along the Tibetan plateau was catastrophic, as the water level rose about 38 meters, the phenomenon lasted between six and nine months and spread over 2,000 km Yellow river below.
The researchers placed the catastrophe around 1920 B.C. after analyzing different samples of sediments and skeletons of children who have died in the earthquake.
According to the study authors, led by Professor Wu Qinglong, it is one of the biggest floods in the last 10,000 years.
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