Drought exposes long-submerged 'Spanish Stonehenge' monument

A 7,000-year-old monument dubbed “Spanish Stonehenge” has been exposed for the primary time in fifty years, when drought conditions in western European nation born water levels during a manmade lake and discovered the traditional standing stones.

The circle of over one hundred giant rocks, called the Dolmen of Guadalperal, was submerged in 1963 when the Spanish government made the Valdecañas Reservoir feed an electricity dam that also generates power within the region. often, the ideas of the tallest standing stones are visible because the reservoir’s water levels have modified, however in line with independent agency, this can be the primary time that the complete monument has been out of water since the realm was flooded to make the lake.

Water levels within the reservoir born considerably this summer when 2 intense heatwaves baked a lot of Europe. In Spain, June’s while saw seven weather stations record their highest temperatures ever, in line with the country’s earth science agency, with many cities olympian 104 degrees Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius). Higher-than-average temperatures and dry conditions were conjointly recorded across European nations in July and August.

NASA’s Landsat eight satellite snapped footage of the realm on July twenty-five. During a comparison of satellite views taken of identical space in 2013, it’s attainable to examine the dynamic coastlines around the Valdecañas Reservoir and additional pronounced vein-like options within the water that represents the exposed lake bed.