# August 2026: The drying-up of the Danube River exposes all kinds of unusual artifacts

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**Created:** [August 19, 2026, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2026-the-drying-up-of-the-danube-river-exposes-all-kinds-of-unusual-artifacts/1032415 "2026-08-19T02:54:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2026-the-drying-up-of-the-danube-river-exposes-all-kinds-of-unusual-artifacts/1032415/21 "2026-08-19T19:17:37Z")

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Actually, I am sorry for starting this inappropriate hijack.

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**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2026-the-drying-up-of-the-danube-river-exposes-all-kinds-of-unusual-artifacts/1032415/22 "2026-08-19T19:21:46Z")

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Moderating:

Yes, exactly which members of the German military were Nazis is becoming a hijack, and it’s really not worth posters getting upset at each other over it in this thread which is really about other stuff. Please, everyone, drop the sidetrack. If anyone really wants to talk about it, please start a new thread.

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**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2026-the-drying-up-of-the-danube-river-exposes-all-kinds-of-unusual-artifacts/1032415/23 "2026-08-20T03:03:04Z")

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> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> “Nowadays, it would probably be the Brown Danube.” I’ve actually heard that it was polluted even when the song was written.

Ever since humans changed from hunter-gatherers to subsistence farmers living in villages (usually near a creek or river), they have been polluting those rivers – a handy place to throw anything you wanted to get rid of. It’s now, with the growth of human population and global warming droughts, that we are getting seriously concerned. Hopefully not too late.

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**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2026-the-drying-up-of-the-danube-river-exposes-all-kinds-of-unusual-artifacts/1032415/24 "2026-08-20T03:32:26Z")

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Nazi skeletons on a motorcycle, having spent 70 years soaking in a polluted river? Sounds like the start of a Marvel movie.

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**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2026-the-drying-up-of-the-danube-river-exposes-all-kinds-of-unusual-artifacts/1032415/25 "2026-08-20T03:41:37Z")

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Yeah, I think I read that issue of _Ghost Rider._

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