Ancient Yangtze floods linked to Shijiahe decline, new 1,000-year rainfall record shows

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Feb 8, 2026, 12:00 pm97 ptsTrending
A new study involving researchers from Oxford's Department of Earth Sciences has finally solved the mystery of what caused the collapse of an Ancient Chinese civilization—finding that widespread flooding was to blame. The findings have been published in National Science Reviews.

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