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30-08-22 06:29 pm ಫೋಟೊ

Historic droughts reveal long-submerged relics

The wreckage of a World War Two German warship is seen as the Danube river reaches record low levels in Prahovo, Serbia.

The vessels were among hundreds scuttled along the Danube by Nazi Germany's Black Sea fleet in 1944 as they retreated from advancing Soviet forces, and still hamper river traffic during low water levels.
A prehistoric stone circle currently sits fully exposed in one corner of Spain's Valdecanas reservoir, in the central province of Caceres, where authorities say the water level has dropped to 28% of capacity.
t was discovered by German archaeologist Hugo Obermaier in 1926, but the area was flooded in 1963 in a rural development project under Francisco Franco's dictatorship. Since then it has only become fully visible four times.
An aerial view of a previously submerged village revealed by low water levels in the Cabril dam reservoir in Pedrogao Grande, Portugal.
Members of the Italian army remove a World War Two bomb that was discovered in the dried-up River Po, amid the region's worst drought in 70 years, in Borgo Virgilio, Italy.
In central Spain, Europe's heatwave has uncovered a medieval gothic bridge as the Cijara reservoir has almost emptied.
A general view shows the ancient village of Aceredo, that had been submerged by the Limia river in the 1990s after the dam was built in Concello de Lobios, Spain.
The ghost village has emerged as drought nearly emptied a dam on the Spanish-Portuguese border, drawing crowds of tourists with its eerie, grey ruins.