Nazi ships, ghost villages, and hunger stones: Ten eerie discoveries in dried up rivers

As Europe experiences its worst drought in at least 500 years, new discoveries are surfacing.

Landscapes across Europe and beyond are being altered as forest fires, melting glaciers and other disasters threaten to wipe out entire regions. 

As these terrains change, river beds are drying up, exposing never seen archaeological treasures.

Here are some of the most incredible finds so far.

An eerie Roman ghost village has risen from the deep, more than 2000 years after it vanished underwater.

The ancient encampment has spent centuries submerged under a reservoir on the Lima River in northwest Spain.

Experts believe it was a Roman Military camp named Aquis Querquennis, constructed in around 75AD.

The spooky ruins - revealed now by record-breaking drought - include evidence of a temple, thermal baths, hospital, and army barracks. 

The Tiber river has rapidly shrunk in Italy’s worst drought in 70 years. Low water levels have revealed two of the ancient piers of Nero’s bridge. The bridge was built in the first century for Nero to reach his Janiculum Hill gardens, near what is now St Peter’s Square. The piers fell into disrepair in the third century and are usually submerged underwater.

In Italy’s driest season, one of the piers typically emerges but seeing two is rare.

“Because the water level of the river is so low now due to widespread drought across Italy, we’re able to see a lot more of the piers of the bridge than we usually could,” says historian Anthony Majanlahti.

A fleet of Nazi warships has resurfaced along the Danube river in Serbia. The Danube is Europe’s second largest river, but this year has approached record low water levels caused by drought.

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