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