Geoarchaeological evidence of the AD 1642 Yellow River flood that destroyed Kaifeng, a former capital of dynastic China.
Storozum M, Lu P, Wang S, Chen P, Yang R, Ge Q, Cao J, Wan J, Wang H, Qin Z, Liu H, Park E.
Storozum M, et al.
Sci Rep. 2020 Feb 28;10(1):3765. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-60169-1.
Sci Rep. 2020.
PMID: 32111852
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We argue that the AD 1642 flood was extraordinarily catastrophic because Kaifeng's city walls only partly collapsed, entrapping most of the flood waters within the city. Both the geology of the Yellow River floods as well as the socio-political context of Kaifeng sh …
We argue that the AD 1642 flood was extraordinarily catastrophic because Kaifeng's city walls only partly collapsed, entrapping most …