Speaker 1: Welcome to brain stuff, a production of IHEART radio. Hey
Speaker 1: brain stuff, Lauren Vobibon here. A rise in global temperatures
Speaker 1: fueled by climate change have caused catastrophic droughts from Arizona
Speaker 1: to a rock. Take Lake Mead, for instance, just outside
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. Lake Mead is the reservoir spanning the border
Speaker 1: between Arizona and Nevada and the largest by volume in
Speaker 1: the US, or it should be. According to the U
Speaker 1: S Bureau of Reclamation, Lake Mead was full to only
Speaker 1: of its capacity as of early September. So Lake Mead
Speaker 1: has landed in the headlines, but not only because it's receding.
Speaker 1: There's also what's been uncovered since then. Five sets of
Speaker 1: human remains. Experts believed there could be more remains still submerged,
Speaker 1: most of which are likely innocent drowning victims, but it's
Speaker 1: almost certain that there are fair number tied to crime
Speaker 1: as well. On a less nefarious note, officials also discovered
Speaker 1: an unapproved boat ramp in the lake in August. But
Speaker 1: Lake Mead isn't the only body of water to have
Speaker 1: dried up and revealed some hidden ruins and relics this summer.
Speaker 1: Take the dinosaur tracks found in Texas and okay, dino
Speaker 1: tracks are nothing new to Texas's Dinosaur Valley State Park.
Speaker 1: In fact, they're very, very old. But severe drought conditions
Speaker 1: on the Paluxi River uncovered a set of massive tracks
Speaker 1: in mid August. They date back about a hundred and
Speaker 1: thirteen million years and likely belonged to Acrocanthosaurus, which was
Speaker 1: a huge therapod that probably stood fifteen feet, or four
Speaker 1: and a half meters, tall and weighed about seven tons.
Speaker 1: The tracks are in a layer of limestone sediment that
Speaker 1: hardened over time. Or take the Buddhist statues found in
Speaker 1: the Yanksee river in August two. The drought in China
Speaker 1: caused water levels to drop across the southwestern part of
Speaker 1: the country. The plunging water levels exposed a formerly submerged
Speaker 1: island and revealed three Buddhist statues estimated to be about
Speaker 1: six hundred years old. The statues are on the highest
Speaker 1: part of the island reef. At the time of the
Speaker 1: discovery in mid August, as many as sixty six rivers
Speaker 1: in the region had dried up, but no other artifacts
Speaker 1: had made headlines. And there's the team of German and
Speaker 1: Kurdish archaeologists who found what they believe is a lost
Speaker 1: city in a rock estimated to be about three thousand
Speaker 1: four hundred years old. The discovery was made when water
Speaker 1: levels at the massoule reservoir dropped because of extreme drought.
Speaker 1: The site, described as an extensive city with several large buildings,
Speaker 1: is believed to have been Jacquie coup, an ancient center
Speaker 1: in the Mattani Empire, which was active circle fifteen fifty
Speaker 1: to thirteen fifty b c e. not everything revealed has
Speaker 1: been so old or so valuable, though. In Italy, the
Speaker 1: river po dried up this summer, and what it was
Speaker 1: hiding just beneath its waters was a one thousand pound,
Speaker 1: or four hundred and fifty kilo, bomb that was dropped
Speaker 1: during World War Two and mercifully failed to detonate at
Speaker 1: the time. A fisherman found the bomb on the river
Speaker 1: bank near a village, prompting officials to shut down nearby
Speaker 1: air and river traffic until the scene was safely contained.
Speaker 1: In August, the unexploded bomb, which Italian military officials had
Speaker 1: contained three hundred and fifty pounds, that's two hundred and
Speaker 1: forty kilos, of explosives, was safely detonated after about three
Speaker 1: thousand nearby residents were evacuated. Today's episode is based on
Speaker 1: the article worldwide droughts uncover ancient relics, ruins and remains
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