Researchers discover that ancient floods "rewrote" civilizations along the Yangtze River

Published on February 6, 2026

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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