{"id":15940,"date":"2018-09-22T04:22:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T04:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15940"},"modified":"2018-09-22T04:22:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T04:22:43","slug":"calls-in-iraq-to-protect-archaeological-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15940","title":{"rendered":"Calls in Iraq to protect archaeological treasures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"69.4862385321\">\n<p>Some of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/iraq.html\"> Iraq<\/a>&#8216;s most significant archaeological discoveries have been made in the city of Samara.<\/p>\n<p>Samara lies on both sides of the River Tigris north of Baghdad. It marks the site of a powerful Islamic capital that ruled over the Abbasid Empire which stretched from Tunisia to Central Asia for a century.<\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that 80 percent of it still lies undiscovered.<\/p>\n<p>UNESCO says it should be protected as a World Heritage Site.<\/p>\n<p>But locals say some of its landmarks are being left to crumble.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Rob Matheson reports from Baghdad, Iraq.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of Iraq&#8217;s most significant archaeological discoveries have been made in the city of Samara. Samara lies on both sides of the River Tigris north of Baghdad. It marks the site of a powerful Islamic capital that ruled over the Abbasid Empire which stretched from Tunisia to Central Asia for a century. It is estimated&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}