{"id":300250,"date":"2023-08-18T13:48:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T11:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=300250"},"modified":"2023-08-18T13:48:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T11:48:02","slug":"warsaw-university-archaeologists-exploring-ptolemais-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/warsaw-university-archaeologists-exploring-ptolemais-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Warsaw University archaeologists exploring Ptolemais again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;Libyan Ptolemais, a large port city of ancient Cyrenaica on the Mediterranean coast that rose to prominence as the capital of a Roman province in late antiquity, is again becoming the object of our research&#8217;, announced researchers from the Faculty of Archaeology at the University of Warsaw (UW) on Facebook.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a 13-year hiatus forced by the civil war in Libya, the mission of the UW&#8217;s Department of Archaeology has returned to Ptolemais.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Archaeological research at the site was initiated by Professor Tomasz Mikocki of the Faculty of Archaeology of the UW in 2001. It covered a quarter of residential buildings located in the centre of the ancient city. The researchers discovered several houses, including the House of Leukaktios &#8211; richly decorated with wall paintings and mosaics with mythological themes, also known as the Villa with a View.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;We are now looking below the surface &#8211; scanning the seabed with sonar is the first stage of the new work&#8217;, announced the Warsaw archaeologists.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Libyan Ptolemais, a large port city of ancient Cyrenaica on the Mediterranean coast that rose to prominence as the capital of a Roman province in late antiquity, is again becoming the object of our research&#8217;, announced researchers from the Faculty of Archaeology at the University of Warsaw (UW) on Facebook.\u00a0 After a 13-year hiatus forced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":300092,"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\/300250"}],"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=300250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300258,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300250\/revisions\/300258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}