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# European drought exposes hunger stones with warning inscriptions in the Elbe
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/evropeiskaia-zasukha-ogolila-tak-nazyvaemye-kamni-goloda-v-ruslakh-rek/
- Published: 2022-08-12T06:09:02.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:58:31.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Geography, Society, Nature, Ethnography

European drought exposes so-called hunger stones in riverbeds. The inscription on one of the stones in the Elbe reads: "If you see me, weep."

Stones marked with extremely low water levels on the Elbe have surfaced in 2018, in 1918 and in the nineteenth century. The marks were made as a harbinger of the famine that drought threatened to bring.

![](https://theparnassian.com/content/images/2026/09/photo_7263@12-08-2022_09-09-02.jpg)