Union Jal Shakti Ministry has discovered an old, dried-up river in Prayagraj(Allahabad).
Discovery was made during geophysical survey which covered the Prayagraj(Allahabad) and Kaushambi region in Uttar Pradesh.
A remnant (Palaeochannel) of an inactive river shows was found about 26 km south of the current Ganga-Yamuna confluence at Prayagraj(Allahabad).
New Discovery also found that the buried river was a link between Ganga and Yamuna rivers. It was about 4 km wide and 45km long river.
The remains of the river were found under(below) 15-meter-thick layer of the soil.
It has also given the air to the mythological Saraswati River actually existed.
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