Severe droughts are exposing historical horrors and wonders

salma hamdi December 11, 2022

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The world has witnessed weeks of unprecedented drought with low water levels in rivers and lakes. Despite its alarming climate implications, Severe droughts are exposing historical horrors and wonders

Severe droughts are exposing historical horrors and archaeological wonders

The worst drought in Europe in 500 years revealed sunken German warships during World War II, as well as a prehistoric stone circle dubbed “Spanish Stonehenge”.

The drought revealed the hulls of dozens of German warships laden with explosives, which sank during World War II near the Serbian river port of Prahovo. These ships were among the hundreds of Nazi Germany’s Black Sea Fleet along the Danube in 1944.

In China, falling water levels revealed a submerged island and three Buddhist statues believed to be 600 years old.

Meanwhile, the drought has led to a series of shocking discoveries in the United States,as bodies of five people believed to have been murdered by the mafia have been found at the bottom of fast-declining Lake Mead in Las Vegas.

In May, the body of a victim who had been shot in the head was found in a barrel before being dumped at sea, a sign of the Las Vegas killers in the 1970s and 1980s. Months later, other bodies were found, killed in the same way.