New Evidence Found of Ancient Flood in China

It is terrifying to imagine what it must have looked like that day in 1922 BCE when the Yellow River overtopped an earthquake-created dam and came roaring downstream. But the story of China's Great Flood is just one in a long tradition of similar tales throughout history, including the Biblical story of Noah and his ark. Now scientists say they have found proof that China's great flood actually happened. At that time, some 4000 years ago, human civilization was beginning to...

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