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Drought in Europe reveals treasures submerged by water

  • Elsa Mischmann
  • BBC news

3 hours ago

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The so-called “hunger stones” in the Rhine

Europe suffers weeks of drought, with continuous heat waves leading to deaths and evacuations.

Rivers and lakes have dried up, causing severe problems for navigation and other vessels. The falling water level also revealed some treasures that were buried underwater.

Among these treasures are the so-called “hunger stones”, which are stones carved on the waterline of rivers during past droughts as a warning to future generations that if these stones appear above the water, difficulties await us.

Most of these stones appeared on the banks of the Elbe River, which flows from the Czech Republic to Germany.

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