Spanish Stonehenge Re-emerges

A brutal summer has caused havoc for many in rural Spain, but one unexpected side-effect of the country’s worst drought in decades has delighted archaeologists – the emergence of a prehistoric stone circle in a dam whose waterline has receded. Officially known as the Dolmen of Guadalperal but dubbed the Spanish Stonehenge, the circle of dozens of megalithic stones is believed to date back to 5000 BC. Discovered by German archaeologist Hugo Obermaier in 1926, the area was flooded in 1963 in a rural development project under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and has only been fully visible four times since.