Images Show How Spain’s Severe Drought Reveals Lost Worlds

Haunting before and after images of sunken towns

Credit: Mirror

A 1976 photo of Taf Fechan reservoir in South Wales showing a partially exposed old town when a severe drought hit that year.

 

Credit: Mirror

A town was submerged here in Taf Fechan in 1927 to give way to a reservoir to provide clean water to residents in a nearby town called Merthyr Tydfil. Buried here are farms, a chapel, a graveyard, and some cottages.

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