Specifically, the findings could lend credibility to arguments that the Xia Dynasty actually existed. “The scientific evidence of this flood would lend support to parts of the legendary history,” said Li Liu, an archaeologist at Stanford University in California and coauthor on the new paper.
Today, researchers published a paper in Sciencelaying out geological evidence for a huge flood on the Yellow River almost 4000 years ago that may have inspired the origin story. In Chinese mythology, the tale of a great flood marks the beginning of the ancient civilization and the debut of China’s first-ever, but possibly fictional, dynasty-the Xia Dynasty.
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