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Receding European Waters Reveal Ancient, Dire Inscriptions on Waterside Stones

By Rain Noe - August 30, 2018

in Visual Communication

This summer central Europe has been suffering from a drought, and as water levels on the Elbe River have receded, a rather creepy sight has emerged: Stones on the river banks carved with dire inscriptions. "When you see me, cry," reads one in Czechia. "We cried – We cry – And you will cry," reads another. A third rock located in Germany states "If you will again see this stone, so you will weep, so shallow the water was in the year 1417."

(Norbert Kaiser/CC-BY-SA-3.0-DE)

https://t.co/NyO66fVH9S— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) August 23, 2018 ' contenteditable='false'>

Yes, it appears that some literate, chisel-carrying people who were alive during the 1400s to 1600s would record historically low levels of water--and warn future generations of the misery ahead. In a drought, of course, crops, livestock and thus humans suffer, which led the chiselers to spread their unhappy message in a medium known as "Hunger Stones."

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It's ironic that in agrarian cultures, when water stops coming out of the sky, it comes out of people's eyes.

via Science Alert and AP News

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Alan Nomoto

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We are leaving this house a mess for the next generation. The least we can do is to proclaim that this doesn’t have to be a new normal.

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Sean Thackston

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and thus balance is restored. If enough farmers cry, the crops will have their sustenance, and the people will be fed!

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