{"id":125715,"date":"2021-07-31T21:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T04:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/zeus-temples-entrance-found-in-western-turkeys-aizanoi"},"modified":"2021-07-31T21:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T04:22:18","slug":"zeus-temples-entrance-found-in-western-turkeys-aizanoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/zeus-temples-entrance-found-in-western-turkeys-aizanoi","title":{"rendered":"Zeus Temple\u2019s entrance found in western Turkey\u2019s Aizanoi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/zeus-temples-entrance-found-in-western-turkeys-aizanoi2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The monumental entrance gate of the Zeus Temple\u2019s sanctuary in the ancient city of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysabah.com\/life\/history\/ancient-city-of-aizanoi-home-to-zeus-temple-to-be-restored\"> Aizanoi<\/a>, located in the \u00c7avdarhisar district of western K\u00fctahya province, Turkey, was unearthed during recent excavations.<\/p>\n<p>Excavations are being carried out by the K\u00fctahya Museum Directorate in the ancient city, which was included in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysabah.com\/life\/history\/unescos-world-heritage-tentative-list-adds-5-more-cultural-assets-from-turkey\">UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List<\/a> in 2012 and is 50 kilometers (31 miles) away from the city center. The excavation coordinator, the head of Dumlup\u0131nar University (DPU) archeology department professor G\u00f6khan Co\u015fkun, told Anadolu Agency (AA) that the ancient city\u2019s history dates back to about 5000 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The monumental entrance gate of the Zeus Temple\u2019s sanctuary in the ancient city of Aizanoi, located in the \u00c7avdarhisar district of western K\u00fctahya province, Turkey, was unearthed during recent excavations. Excavations are being carried out by the K\u00fctahya Museum Directorate in the ancient city, which was included in the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}