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They are called hunger stones and seeing them is never a good sign. They are memorials to difficult years with low water levels and drought. Like this summer in large parts of Europe which scientists warn could be the worst in 500 years. In the river Elbe, which flows into Hamburg, a hunger stone from the 17th century has been found, it and on it is written “When you see me, weep.”
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Europe's dry rivers reveal creepy "hunger stones"
When rivers dry up in Central Europe, "hunger stones" with ominous inscribed warnings from centuries past reappear.
