{"id":206,"date":"2019-12-10T15:30:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T15:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/?p=206"},"modified":"2020-01-24T19:19:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T19:19:41","slug":"discovery-of-ancient-town-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/2019\/12\/10\/discovery-of-ancient-town-in-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"We discovered an ancient town!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The JHU Spatial Observation Lab for Archaeological Research (SOLAR) is pleased to announce the first publication on our discovery of the <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15184\/aqy.2019.84\">ancient town of Beta Samati.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-214\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/files\/2019\/12\/Image-8-20160521_123144-compress-300x102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/files\/2019\/12\/Image-8-20160521_123144-compress-300x102.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/files\/2019\/12\/Image-8-20160521_123144-compress-1024x348.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/files\/2019\/12\/Image-8-20160521_123144-compress-768x261.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/files\/2019\/12\/Image-8-20160521_123144-compress-1536x522.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/files\/2019\/12\/Image-8-20160521_123144-compress-2048x696.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/files\/2019\/12\/Image-8-20160521_123144-compress-640x218.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/files\/2019\/12\/Image-8-20160521_123144-compress-1200x408.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>News coverage is available here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/12\/11\/africa\/ethiopia-buried-town-discovery-beta-samati-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Archeologists unearth lost town from little-known ancient East African empire &#8211; CNN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p07xmh6v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Ancient buried town in Ethiopia uncovered &#8211; BBC Radio<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2226803-lost-ethiopian-town-comes-from-an-ancient-empire-that-rivalled-rome\/#ixzz67iab32vp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Lost Ethiopian town comes from an ancient empire that rivalled Rome &#8211; New Scientist\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/buried-christian-church-lost-kingdom-ethiopia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Buried Christian (and Pagan) Basilica Discovered in Ethiopia&#8217;s &#8216;Lost Kingdom&#8217; of Aksum &#8211; Live Science<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancient-origins.net\/news-history-archaeology\/aksumite-town-0012984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Lost Aksumite Town Reveals Secrets of Enigmatic Kingdom &#8211; Ancient Origins<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/church-unearthed-ethiopia-rewrites-history-christianity-africa-180973740\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Church Unearthed in Ethiopia Rewrites the History of Christianity in Africa &#8211; Smithsonian Magazine<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The JHU Spatial Observation Lab for Archaeological Research (SOLAR) is pleased to announce the first publication on our discovery of the ancient town of Beta Samati. News coverage is available here&#8230; Archeologists unearth lost town from little-known ancient East African empire &#8211; CNN Ancient buried town in Ethiopia uncovered &#8211; BBC Radio Lost Ethiopian town [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}