{"id":134185,"date":"2022-01-17T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T22:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/4500-year-old-avenues-lined-with-ancient-tombs-discovered-in-saudi-arabia"},"modified":"2022-01-17T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T22:23:08","slug":"4500-year-old-avenues-lined-with-ancient-tombs-discovered-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/4500-year-old-avenues-lined-with-ancient-tombs-discovered-in-saudi-arabia","title":{"rendered":"4,500 year-old avenues lined with ancient tombs discovered in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/4500-year-old-avenues-lined-with-ancient-tombs-discovered-in-saudi-arabia2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Archaeologists have discovered a 4,500-year-old highway network in <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/travel\/article\/saudi-arabia-fun-tourists\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Saudi Arabia<\/a> lined with well-preserved ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/travel\/article\/egypt-tomb-saqqara-scli-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">tombs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Western Australia have carried out a wide-ranging investigation over the past year, involving aerial surveys conducted by helicopter, ground survey and excavation and examination of satellite imagery.<\/p>\n<p>In<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/09596836211060497\" target=\"_blank\"> findings published<\/a> in the Holocene journal in December, they said the \u201cfunerary avenues\u201d spanning large distances in the northwestern Arabian counties of Al-\u2018Ula and Khaybar had received little examination until quite recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists have discovered a 4,500-year-old highway network in Saudi Arabia lined with well-preserved ancient tombs. Researchers from the University of Western Australia have carried out a wide-ranging investigation over the past year, involving aerial surveys conducted by helicopter, ground survey and excavation and examination of satellite imagery. In findings published in the Holocene journal in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134185","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}