Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, according to a recent study in which its authors link three wildly different lines ...

Some civilizations in inland China underwent dramatic changes and population drops 3,000 years ago. Now, researchers are using oracle bones, archaeological evidence and climate modeling to find out ...

Famous natural disasters in the ancient world A number of natural disasters involving earthquakes and tsunamis were especially famous in ancient Greek and Roman times. In 464 BC, in Sparta, there was ...