{"id":38238,"date":"2011-07-31T13:36:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T10:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=38238"},"modified":"2014-01-06T14:23:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T12:23:32","slug":"ancient-stone-lion-found-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/07\/31\/ancient-stone-lion-found-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient stone lion found in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of archeologists from the University of Toronto has found 2,800-year old stone lion during excavations at Turkey&#8217;s Tell Tayinat ancient site.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38240\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38240\" title=\"ebrahimpour20110730172327140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ebrahimpour20110730172327140.jpg\" alt=\"Excavations at Tell Tayinat, Turkey\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ebrahimpour20110730172327140.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ebrahimpour20110730172327140-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Excavations at Tell Tayinat, Turkey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Led by Tim Harrison, the team discovered the beautifully carved lion while excavating a temple at the site, Unreported Heritage News reported.<\/p>\n<p>The lion is nearly four feet tall and appears to be roaring. Experts have dated it to the time when Tayinat was the capital of a small independent kingdom, called Palastin, which vanished when the Assyrians under Tiglath-pileser III conquered the city in 738 BCE.<\/p>\n<p>Tayinat was revived 3,200 years ago when Middle Eastern civilizations were invaded by people of the Aegean known as the &#8220;Sea People.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Similar lion statues were also found by Robert Braidwood during his Tayinat excavations in the 1930&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>TE\/HGH<\/p>\n<p>via PressTV &#8211; Ancient stone lion found in Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of archeologists from the University of Toronto has found 2,800-year old stone lion during excavations at Turkey&#8217;s Tell Tayinat ancient site. Led by Tim Harrison, the team discovered the beautifully carved lion while excavating a temple at the site, Unreported Heritage News reported. The lion is nearly four feet tall and appears to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":38240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[5651,3541,6588],"class_list":["post-38238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-antiquities","tag-archeology","tag-tayinat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}