{"id":2215,"date":"2024-09-25T13:27:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T13:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/exploring-turkeys-ancient-underground-city-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2024-09-25T13:27:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T13:27:38","slug":"exploring-turkeys-ancient-underground-city-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/exploring-turkeys-ancient-underground-city-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Turkey\u2019s ancient underground city &#8211; BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vSg1baThev8?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Close to the border with Syria, Midyat in Turkey has been home to many civilizations over the last 3,000 years. <\/p>\n<p>Excavation teams recently discovered a vast underground network of caves and passages forming an underground city, thought to be almost 2,000 years old. <\/p>\n<p>Valuables dating back to Roman times were found in the dig, including candlesticks, coins and bracelets.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s believed the city was used as a space to work, store, sleep and worship in times of war, and would&#8217;ve been inhabited by 70,000 people. <\/p>\n<p>Please subscribe HERE http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vSg1baThev8\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close to the border with Syria, Midyat in Turkey has been home to many civilizations over the last 3,000 years. Excavation teams recently discovered a vast underground network of caves and passages forming an underground city, thought to be almost 2,000 years old. Valuables dating back to Roman times were found in the dig, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15,169,368],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-news","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}