{"id":250284,"date":"2022-11-17T11:03:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T10:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=250284"},"modified":"2022-11-17T11:03:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T10:03:08","slug":"archaeologists-discoveries-at-bahra-1-site-in-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/archaeologists-discoveries-at-bahra-1-site-in-kuwait\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists&#8217; discoveries at Bahra 1 site in Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kuwait-Poland Archaeological Mission (KPAM), participated by the researchers from the Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Warsaw (CA\u015a UW), is conducting research at the prehistoric Bahra 1 site in northern Kuwait. During the current archaeological season, researchers have discovered an unusual fragment of a pendant depicting a bird of prey and a fragment of a boat model.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most interesting discoveries made there by Kuwaiti and Polish archaeologists include an unusual building interpreted as a temple &#8211; the first of its kind discovered in the region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A fragment of a stone pendant depicting a bird of prey with outstretched wings was discovered this year in one of the rooms of a building near the temple.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;This would not have been anything unusual in a later period, but here in the 6th millennium BC such an object is quite surprising&#8221;, says Prof Piotr Bieli\u0144ski from the CA\u015a UW. &#8221;This is the first amulet of this type found during the excavations&#8217;, he adds.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kuwait-Poland Archaeological Mission (KPAM), participated by the researchers from the Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Warsaw (CA\u015a UW), is conducting research at the prehistoric Bahra 1 site in northern Kuwait. During the current archaeological season, researchers have discovered an unusual fragment of a pendant depicting a bird of prey and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":250203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}