A 19th-century shipwreck and human remains were uncovered as the Mississippi River recedes

 

 
A prolonged drought has dried up the Mississippi River, revealing a centuries-old shipwreck and skeletal remains.
The river, a major shipping route, reached record-low levels this week amid drought conditions. According to a growing body of research, rising global temperatures due to burning of fossil fuels enhance evaporation, making droughts more severe.
In early October, low water levels revealed the old sunken ship along the banks of the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Archaeologists believe these remains are from a ferry that sunk in the late 19th or early 20th century, The Associated Press reported.

Though this is the first time the ship has been fully exposed, it's not a new discovery. Small parts of the vessel emerged from low waters in the 1990s.
"At that time the vessel was completely full of mud and there was mud all around it so only the very tip tops of the sides were visible," Chip McGimsey, Louisiana's state archaeologist, told the AP. "They had to move a lot of dirt just to get some narrow windows in to see bits and pieces," McGimsey said.
McGimsey thinks the ship could be the Brookhill Ferry, which carried people and possibly horse-drawn wagons across the Mississippi, until it sunk in a storm in 1915, according to news stories from the State Times archives.