{"id":420637,"date":"2017-12-21T10:20:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T14:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=6047d1cebe67840a26e9b02b0deb0e39"},"modified":"2017-12-21T10:20:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T14:20:02","slug":"discovery-of-a-4000-year-old-military-network-in-northern-syria-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=420637","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of a 4,000-year-old military network in northern Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery of more than a thousand sites in Syria has revised our understanding of the settlement of the steppes during all periods in the history of the Near East. Recently, analysis of aerial and satellite images has enabled the discovery of a vast structured surveillance and communication network dating from the Middle Bronze Age (2nd millennium BCE). This research, led by researchers from the Arch\u00e9orient laboratory (Environnements et soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de l&#8217;Orient ancien \u2013 CNRS\/Universit\u00e9 Lumi\u00e8re Lyon 2) and the Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums of Syria, is published in the journal Pal\u00e9orient on December 19, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery of more than a thousand sites in Syria has revised our understanding of the settlement of the steppes during all periods in the history of the Near East. Recently, analysis of aerial and satellite images has enabled the discovery of a vast structured surveillance and communication network dating from the Middle Bronze Age (2nd millennium BCE). This research, led by researchers from the Arch&eacute;orient laboratory (Environnements et soci&eacute;t&eacute;s de l&#8217;Orient ancien &ndash; CNRS\/Universit&eacute; Lumi&egrave;re Lyon 2) and the Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums of Syria, is published in the journal Pal&eacute;orient on December 19, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420638,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420637\/revisions\/420638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}