China’s Great Flood – fact or fiction?

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According to the Chinese legend of the Great Flood, a disastrous event took place on the Yellow River, in China, during the third millennium BC. Now, researchers have not only provided geological evidence for this event but found out it occurred several centuries later than traditionally thought. Professor David R. Montgomery of the University of Washington in Seattle talks about this study and the crossroads between geology and folk tales. Image credit: Wu Qinglong