{"id":326216,"date":"2024-01-10T09:13:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T08:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=326216"},"modified":"2024-01-10T09:13:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T08:13:06","slug":"discovery-by-polish-archaeologists-on-the-croatian-island-of-lukovac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/discovery-by-polish-archaeologists-on-the-croatian-island-of-lukovac\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery by Polish archaeologists on the Croatian island of Lukovac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;1,500 years ago, the inhabitants of today&#8217;s Croatia drank Egyptian wine&#8221;, says Prof. Fabian Welc of the Institute of Archaeology at Cardinal Stefan Wyszy\u0144ski University (UKSW) in Warsaw, co-leading a Polish-Croatian team of archaeologists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is evidenced by Egyptian wine-carrying amphorae, fragments of which were discovered on the Croatian islet of Lukovac by Polish and Croatian archaeologists from a team led by Prof. Fabian Welc from UKSW and Dr Ana Konestra from the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vessel parts found are characteristic dark brown shells with a corrugated structure and were made of clay with an admixture of golden mica washed from basalt rocks in the Abyssinian highlands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the island of Lukovac, which belonged to the Roman province of Liburnia, the researchers also found unique late antique fragments of fortifications. The entire site was surrounded by a defensive wall. Earlier, archaeologists discovered an early Christian church with an apse built between the 4th and 7th centuries AD, as well as a small fragment of a large water cistern and a small part of a large residential building.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;1,500 years ago, the inhabitants of today&#8217;s Croatia drank Egyptian wine&#8221;, says Prof. Fabian Welc of the Institute of Archaeology at Cardinal Stefan Wyszy\u0144ski University (UKSW) in Warsaw, co-leading a Polish-Croatian team of archaeologists. This is evidenced by Egyptian wine-carrying amphorae, fragments of which were discovered on the Croatian islet of Lukovac by Polish and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":326119,"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\/326216"}],"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=326216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326226,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326216\/revisions\/326226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}