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A Nazi motorbike is one of the many secrets of history uncovered by Europe's record-breaking heatwave.
The Wehrmacht military motorcycle, the remains of two soldiers, and World War II ammunition were among items found on the riverbed amid record-low water levels along the Danube in Budapest at the weekend.
Mammoth bones believed to be several thousand years old were also discovered along the same river near Ryahovo, Bulgaria.
Across Europe, months of scorching hot temperatures and low rainfall have seen rivers, reservoirs and lakes turn up secrets that until now have been hidden from history, offering archaeologists a unique opportunity to retrieve important artefacts.
Parched, dry grass has meanwhile revealed the outlines of structures long since demolished and forgotten - including a grand 17th century formal garden that once stood on the grounds of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire.
The DKW NZ 350-1 model Wehrmacht military motorcycle was found at the shore of the Danube river in Budapest, opposite the Hungarian Parliament building, more than 80 years after the end of World War II.
This model was produced in Germany from 1944 to 1945 - around the same time the Nazis invaded Hungary in a bid to prevent their government from defecting to the allied forces.
(A German military jerry can was also discovered along the Danube.
It had been almost perfectly preserved in the river mud, which was found to be still mixed with petrol.
Found nearby were German TMi-35 anti-tank mines and grenade fragments, which were detonated by a bomb squad from the Hungarian Defence Forces.
(Along with the other artefacts, recovery specialists from the German War Graves Commission also retrieved the remains of two Wehrmacht soldiers exposed by the low waterbed.
Both men still had unbroken double identification tags - indicating their deaths were never officially registered in Berlin.
The remains will now undergo a formal identification process, before being given a military burial at the Budaörs German Soldiers Cemetery on the outskirts of Budapest
(Last week, scientists from Rousse's Regional History Museum were seen examining remains of an ancient mammoth that turned up in the Danube near the village of Ryahovo, north east of Rousse in northern Bulgaria.
A local resident had spotted the bones on the exposed riverbed and told the authorities, who passed the matter on to the museum.
(Both the left and right tusks of the single animal were found together in the mud, which is highly unusual for riverbed discoveries.
The size and structure of the tusks helped researchers confirm that the remains belonged to a young woolly mammoth, rather than a fully grown adult. The tusks will now undergo a specialist drying and chemical reinforcement process at the museum's laboratory before being put on public display.
(Professor Nikolay Nenov, director of the museum, explained that northern Bulgaria would have been a large area of marshland when woolly mammoths roamed the continent tens of thousands of years ago.
He said: "Scientists who surveyed the site in previous years believed there could be remains there. The area is now part of the Danube, but thousands of years ago it was probably a marsh."
(In Derbyshire, exceptional low rainfall has revealed the outline of a stunning 17th-century garden design on Chatsworth House's South Lawn.
The Great Parterre, an ornamental arrangement of flower beds and paths, was created for the 1st Duke of Devonshire around 1699, to complement the new South façade of the house.
It was covered over and replaced with a new design around 1730, in changes introduced by the 3rd Duke.
Because the grass that was laid to replace the flowerbeds and paths has shorter roots, it burns more quickly when temperatures are high and dry, temporarily revealing the swirling patterns of the First Duke's original garden underneath.
(In Oxfordshire, hot, dry weather has exposed the outline of Blenheim Palace's 300-year-old garden, hidden under the lawn.
The original parterre was created in 1705 by royal gardener Henry Wise and stretched across the full width of the palace, surrounded by a high stone wall with bastions.
The continued heatwave conditions have uncovered parch marks highlighting the outline of the garden, which was dismantled by renowned landscape gardener Lancelot "Capability" Brown when he transformed the grounds in the 1760s.
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