Extreme heat uncovers lost villages, ancient ruins and shipwrecks

An ancient city has been uncovered under a reservoir in Iran. (Image: University of Tübingen)
Bloomberg
By Kevin Simauchi with Ngai Yeung Extreme heat this year has triggered wildfires, droughts and melting glaciers. Less expectedly, it’s also revealed some weird and dark things about our past – shipwrecks, corpses, ghost villages, ornamental gardens and ancient cities. Here’s a look at some of those discoveries.Spanish ghost villageAceredo, a village near Spain’s border with Portugal, was flooded in 1992 to make room for the Alto Lindoso reservoir. In February – about 30 years later – drought re-exposed t...

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