Weeks of drought across Europe have seen rivers drop, revealing underwater treasures; In Spain, archaeologists were delighted with the appearance of a prehistoric stone circle called the “Spanish Stonehenge”.
The stone circle is known as (Dolmen of Guadalberl) and is currently completely exposed in one of the corners of the Valdecanas Reservoir in the province of Cáceres following the water level decreased to 28% of the reservoir capacity.
Memories of past droughts in Germany are reminiscent of the re-emergence of “hunger stones” along the Rhine, and some see their reappearance as a warning and reminder of the hardships people faced during previous droughts.
The dates seen on stones in Worms, south of Frankfurt, Rheindorf and near Leverkusen include the years 1947, 1959, 2003 and 2018.
While the Danube’s plunge to one of its lowest levels in nearly a century has revealed the hulls of more than 20 German warships that sank during World War II near the Serbian port of Prahovo.
In Italy’s Po River, a World War II bomb weighing 450 kilograms was discovered submerged in the low waters of the country’s longest river.
