| Photo: Thomas Peter/Reuters Plunging water levels have revealed long-buried artifacts in Asia, Europe and North America this summer. In China, a drought and heat wave surfaced a trio of Buddhist statues believed to be 600 years old (photo above), Reuters reports: - One of the statues depicts a monk sitting on a lotus pedestal.
Rainfall in the Yangtze basin has been 45% lower than normal since July. - High temperatures are likely to persist for at least another week, official forecasts said.
As many as 66 rivers across Chongqing, in China's southwest, have dried up, state broadcaster CCTV said Friday. Photo: Flavio lo Scalzo/Reuters Weeks of baking drought across Europe have also revealed long-submerged treasures, per Reuters. - Above, a World War II bomb was removed on Aug. 7 after being discovered in Italy's dried-up Po River, currently suffering the worst drought in 70 years.
In Spain, archaeologists have been delighted by the emergence of a prehistoric stone circle dubbed the "Spanish Stonehenge." - Another of Europe's mighty rivers, the Danube, has fallen to one of its lowest levels in almost a century, exposing the hulks of more than 20 German warships sunk during World War II, near Serbia's river port town of Prahovo.
Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images In Nevada, this sunken World War II-Era Higgins landing craft emerged last month from what used to be 185 feet of water in Lake Mead, which had dropped to 27% of capacity. - Lake Mead's water levels last month were their lowest since April 1937, when the reservoir was originally filled. (NASA)
- Some of the steepest cliffs bordering the lake now show 170 feet of white-mineral "bathtub ring." Keep reading.
🔮 What's next: Record-shattering high temperatures are forecast to persist for at least the next week in the U.S., Europe and Asia. | 
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