Viking weapons, Nazi ships, and hunger stones: 11 eerie discoveries in dried up rivers and glaciers

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.

Around 800 years ago, deep in Norway’s Jotunheimen Mountain range, a Viking hunter took aim at a reindeer.

The iron-tipped arrow missed, lodging into the snow.

Eight centuries later, melting glaciers have revealed the ancient artefact - along with a crop of other old Norse weaponry.

The weapons were discovered by the Secrets of the Ice group, a team of glacial archaeologists from Oslo’s Museum of Cultural History.

"We have never unearthed an arrowhead like this before,” the team enthused on social media.

"A Viking was the last person to touch it."

Earlier this month, the team uncovered an even older arrow, dating from roughly 1500 years ago. 

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