{"id":819,"date":"2015-06-07T10:53:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T14:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/819"},"modified":"2019-04-08T01:03:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T05:03:54","slug":"2000-year-old-perfume-flask-and-other-treasures-found-in-northern-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/819","title":{"rendered":"2000-year-old perfume flask and other treasures found in northern Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spectacular 2,000-year-old treasures from the Roman empire and the Aksumite kingdom, which ruled parts of north-east Africa for several centuries before 940AD, have been discovered by British archaeologists in northern Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>Louise Schofield, a former British Museum curator, headed a major six-week excavation of the ancient city of Aksum where her team of 11 uncovered graves with \u201cextraordinary\u201d artifacts dating from the first and second centuries. They offer evidence that the Romans were trading there hundreds of years earlier than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>Schofield told the Observer: \u201cEvery day we had shed-loads of treasure coming out of all the graves. I was blown away: I\u2019d been confident we\u2019d find something, but not on this scale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.guim.co.uk\/static\/w-620\/h--\/q-95\/sys-images\/Guardian\/About\/General\/2015\/6\/5\/1433539665045\/Grave-in-Ethiopia-007.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She was particularly excited about the grave of a woman she has named \u201cSleeping Beauty\u201d. The way the body and its grave goods had been positioned suggest that she had been beautiful and much-loved&#8230;. READ MORE at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/jun\/07\/ancient-ethiopia-gravesite-treasure-rome\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spectacular 2,000-year-old treasures from the Roman empire and the Aksumite kingdom, which ruled parts of north-east Africa for several centuries before 940AD, have been discovered by British archaeologists in northern Ethiopia. Louise Schofield, a former British Museum curator, headed a major six-week excavation of the ancient city of Aksum where her team of 11 uncovered\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"photographer":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/yearold-perfume-flask-found-in-aksum-by-archeologists-1433688775k8ng4.png?fit=287%2C432&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}