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Europe’s summer of extraordinary heat and drought has pushed some of its rivers to record lows, revealing long-submerged relics from ancient bones to century-old shipwrecks.
The remains of what’s believed to be an ancient mammoth were discovered Wednesday on the newly exposed riverbed of the Danube in northern Bulgaria, after the river plunged to record lows.
The director of the Regional History Museum in the nearby town of Ruse said the discovery consists of a lower jaw, two tusks and potentially a rib, according to Reuters, citing local media reports. The bones will now be tested to confirm the find.
The Danube also runs through Croatia, where receding water has revealed the skeleton of a cargo ship called the Fulton, which was transporting coal down the river when it sank in 1937.
