{"id":165172,"date":"2022-02-23T10:01:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T02:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=165172"},"modified":"2022-02-23T10:01:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T02:01:35","slug":"jordan-discovers-9000-year-old-archaeological-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=165172","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Discovers 9,000-Year-Old Archaeological site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AMMAN, Feb 23 (NNN-PETRA) &#8211; Jordan&#8217;s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, announced yesterday, a discovery of an archaeological site for religious rituals, that has a history of roughly 9,000 years, in the south-eastern part of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Archaeologists found a shrine at the site, with a unique ritual installation in the Neolithic time, the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The installations, called &#8220;desert kites,&#8221; were used as mass traps for hunting gazelles. They were widespread across the Middle Eastern and South-west Asian arid landscapes, the ministry said, adding, it believed the installation at the site was used for religious purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This discovery is unprecedented, as it constitutes a unique testimony of a complex ritual arrangement, dating back to the Neolithic period,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry stressed the importance of the discovery, saying, it highlighted Jordan as a &#8220;cradle of civilisations, which continues to amaze the world with new archaeological discoveries.&#8221;&#8211; NNN-PETRA  \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMMAN, Feb 23 (NNN-PETRA) &#8211; Jordan&#8217;s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, announced yesterday, a discovery of an archaeological site for religious rituals, that has a history of roughly 9,000 years, in the south-eastern part of the country. Archaeologists found a shrine at the site, with a unique ritual installation in the Neolithic time, the ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[269],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165172"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}