According to legend, Queen Bao Si never smiled. King You of the Western Zhou dynasty (about 1046BC-771BC) wanted to amuse her. So he lit the beacon fires – meant to warn of invasion – to make nobles rush to court. They dashed in but found no enemy.
When the Quanrong nomads stormed in from the north, the beacons burned, but no one came. The king died. The dynasty collapsed.
Chinese stories blamed Bao Si for the fall.
But a study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment shows...
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