In Images: Drought in Europe exposes sunken ships, lost villages and ominous 'hunger stones' in some places

A carving on one of the "hunger stones" in the Rhine revealed a previous low point.

Europe has been suffering weeks alots of drought, with persistent heat waves leading to evacuations and deaths.

Rivers and lakes have dried, causing major bad issues for shipping and other vessels. The receding water levels have also revealed some usually-buried treasures.

The most ominous of these are "hunger stones", engraved at the waterline of rivers during back droughts as a warning to future generation when that the stones are above water, hardship lies above.

Most of the stones have reappeared on the banks of the river Elbe, which flows from the Czech Republic through Germany Regions.

One stone, which was first carved as far back as the 16th Century, also surfaced in 1617, when locals inscribed into it the words "if you see me, cry".

Low water levels in the Danube in Serbia have revealed the sunken remains of World War Two ships, still loaded with explosives.


 

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