Extreme heat that covered half the planet led to the shallowing of rivers and drainage of reservoirs. There were many curious finds at their bottom: traces of dinosaurs, ancient cities, “hungry stones”, writes in his report BBC.
So, due to the fall of the water level in the Yangtsy River, three Buddhist statues appeared on the surface, which, according to archaeologists, can be about 600 years.
The water in the Danube River in the result of the strongest drought in 500 years slept up to one of the lowest levels almost over the century, exposing the skeletons of dozens of tens of explosives of German warships loaded with explosives. They sank during the Second World War near the Serbian river port city of Prakhovo. Many of them still have tons of ammunition and explosives, and they are a danger to shipping.
In Iraq, a prolonged drought threatened the crop and forced the country’s authorities to put water from the Mosul reservoir to irrigate the fields. When the water was poured, the ruins of the ancient city appeared on the surface. Archaeologists date them about 1400 BC. The ruins belong to Zakiku, the city in the empire of Mitanni. This empire controlled part of Northern Syria and Mesopotamia from 1550 to 1350 BC.
The lack of rains and the hot weather lasting many days caused drought in many European countries at once, and in shallow rivers, disturbing warnings appeared on the surface – these are the so -called “hungry stones” that are visible only during periods of strong droughts, the messages about them were carved on them. past natural disasters caused by a lack of water, and related to this disaster. The oldest inscription on the “hungry stone” discovered in Elbe is dated 1616, it says: “If you see me – sob.”
At the bottom of the shallow river in Central Texas, traces of a dinosaur’s age were discovered 113 million years.
In the Tiber River in Rome, the ruins of the bridge, built during the time of Emperor Nero, appeared. This year, the Tiber grinned more than a meter, to a record low level. The bridge connected the Marse field with the opposite shore of Tiber.
In Spain, at the bottom of the Valdecanas reservoir in the central province of Kassez, the water level in which has dropped by a third, a prehistoric stone circle has appeared – this is a dolmen Guadalperl, which is called the Spanish Stonehenge, it dates back to our era.