{"id":94998,"date":"2019-08-19T20:42:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T03:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/7th-century-skeleton-from-mysterious-merovingian-era-unearthed-in-france"},"modified":"2019-08-19T20:42:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T03:42:45","slug":"7th-century-skeleton-from-mysterious-merovingian-era-unearthed-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/7th-century-skeleton-from-mysterious-merovingian-era-unearthed-in-france","title":{"rendered":"7th-Century Skeleton From Mysterious Merovingian Era Unearthed in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/7th-century-skeleton-from-mysterious-merovingian-era-unearthed-in-france.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In what is being called an \u201cunprecedented\u201d discovery, a limestone sarcophagus containing the skeleton of a woman dating to the 7th century has been unearthed by archaeologists in Cahors, in southwestern France.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery of the coffin, believed to be from the mysterious Merovingian era, was made as part of excavations carried out ahead of a redevelopment project by the archaeological unit of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lot.departement\/posts\/2369620223320001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Lot<\/a>, in cooperation with specialists from France\u2019s National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what is being called an \u201cunprecedented\u201d discovery, a limestone sarcophagus containing the skeleton of a woman dating to the 7th century has been unearthed by archaeologists in Cahors, in southwestern France. The discovery of the coffin, believed to be from the mysterious Merovingian era, was made as part of excavations carried out ahead of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94998","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=94998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}