Philippines dam’s drought emerges the 300-year-old town

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Pantabangan town, a 300-year-old town, has resurfaced due to severe temperatures in the Philippines. The town was submerged in the 1970s, but only emerged from water on rare occasions during dry and hot weather. The re-emergence of the ruins has attracted tourists to the town. Advertisement Severe temperatures in the Philippines have caused the ruins of an almost 300-year-old town to resurface, as a major dam partially dried up. The construction of a reservoir submerged Pantabangan town in the 1970s, but it emerged from the water on extremely rare occasions when the weather was dry and hot. Almost half the...