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Hunger stones show how many years water has dropped to similar levels
Weeks of heat waves and drought in Europe have not only caused deaths and evacuations.
The drying up of rivers and lakes disrupted shipping, threatened the life of living things, and besides all this, it brought some “treasures” that had been buried in the water to the surface.
But some of these treasures that are reappearing are not good news.
Like hunger rocks…
These rocks herald that the water level in the rivers has dropped to a dangerous level, and these stones have inscriptions engraved on the stones as a “warning” for future generations.
“Cry if you see me”
A large number of such rocks appeared in the Elbe River, which flows between the Czech Republic and Germany.
The history of one of these rocks goes back to the 15th century. The inscription “Cry if you see me” is engraved on this rock, which resurfaced in the 16th century.
As the water level of the Danube River decreased in Serbia, sunken ships from World War II still containing explosives appeared.
The ships that appeared near the city of Prahovo belong to the Nazi fleet, which sank in 1944. It is estimated that as the waters recede, more ships will surface.
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During World War II, some of their ships were sunk while the Nazis were escaping from the Soviet armies.
Unexploded ordnance was discovered in the Po River in Italy in July.
About 3,000 people living in the nearby town of Mantua had to be evacuated. Experts transferred the unexploded bomb from the 2nd World War to a safe place and detonated it in a controlled manner.
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Unexploded bomb found in the River Po in Italy
A German barge (a large undecked boat carrying cargo to ships and nearby shores), which sank in 1943, also surfaced in the Po River.
The Zibello barge, which first revealed its cat under au a few months ago, becomes more prominent as the waters recede.
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zibella barge
The receding waters of the Tiber River in Rome revealed the remains of a historical bridge. It is estimated that the bridge was built by Emperor Nero in the 50s AD.
In the past it was possible to see parts of the bridge underwater, but the structure is now clearly visible.
The historical bridge is located under the Vittorio Emanuele II Bridge.
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Remains of historical bridges unearthed in Rome
In Spain, in the Valdecanas basin, BC. The obelisks dating from the 5000s became even more visible as a result of the drought.
The Guadalperal Dolmens (stone burials) consist of stones placed in a circle.
The stones were discovered in 1926 but were submerged in 1963 by a regional development project. Since then, the stones have surfaced only 4 times.
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The stones were first discovered in 1926.
In Spain’s Galicia region, on the Portuguese border, a “ghost village” emerged when the waters of a basin receded a few months ago.
The town of Aceredo was submerged in 1992 for the dam. Some former residents of this place went to the area and saw their old houses again.
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The village of Aceredo was submerged for dam construction
In England, the remains thought to belong to an old church were unearthed in Derwent in the Derbyshire region.
This place was also submerged in the 1940s during the construction of the Ladybower dam.
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Church ruins in Derwent
Old tree remnants have also become visible in the Colliford Lake basin in Cornwall, southwest England.
The area was submerged in the 1980s.
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tree remains
Also in Lydiard Park, in Swindon, in southwest England, traces of 17th-century gardens have emerged as hot weather kills the above-ground grasses.
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“Ghost gardens” created by drying grass