{"id":146796,"date":"2022-09-22T03:23:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T08:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/scientists-find-evidence-for-food-insecurity-driving-international-conflict-2000-years-ago"},"modified":"2022-09-22T03:23:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T08:23:11","slug":"scientists-find-evidence-for-food-insecurity-driving-international-conflict-2000-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/scientists-find-evidence-for-food-insecurity-driving-international-conflict-2000-years-ago","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find evidence for food insecurity driving international conflict 2,000 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-evidence-for-food-insecurity-driving-international-conflict-2000-years-ago.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ancient Palmyra has gripped public imagination since its picturesque ruins were \u201crediscovered\u201d in the seventeenth century by western travelers. The most legendary story of ancient Palmyra is that of Queen Zenobia, who was ruling over a thriving city in the Syrian Desert and dared to challenge the Roman Empire, but ultimately was defeated.<\/p>\n<p>Her kingdom was subjugated, and the city was reduced to a small settlement without any wide-ranging importance. This has only recently been overshadowed by the catastrophic events of the Syrian Civil War that saw the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/archaeological+site\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">archaeological site<\/a> and the museum plundered and many monuments destroyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient Palmyra has gripped public imagination since its picturesque ruins were \u201crediscovered\u201d in the seventeenth century by western travelers. The most legendary story of ancient Palmyra is that of Queen Zenobia, who was ruling over a thriving city in the Syrian Desert and dared to challenge the Roman Empire, but ultimately was defeated. Her kingdom [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146796","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}