{"id":57872,"date":"2011-04-12T14:08:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T20:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=57872"},"modified":"2026-08-09T19:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T00:02:44","slug":"jordan-creates-online-archaeology-treasure-trove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=57872","title":{"rendered":"Jordan creates online archaeology treasure trove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/apr\/12\/jordan-creates-online-archaeology-treasure-trove\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jordan on Tuesday launched the world\u2019s largest online antiquities database, which details every archaeological site in the country and aims to help preserve its treasures. Its creators said the Web platform could be a model for Iraq, where looters have plundered its ancient heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Experts said the Middle Eastern Geodatabase for Antiquities is the first such countrywide system. The site uses Geographic Information System, similar to Google Earth, to map 11,000 registered sites in the country _ and a click on each reveals inventories of what they contain and reports on their conditions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. Jordan on Tuesday launched the world\u2019s largest online antiquities database, which details every archaeological site in the country and aims to help preserve its treasures. Its creators said the Web platform could be a model for Iraq, where looters have plundered its ancient heritage. Experts said the Middle Eastern Geodatabase for Antiquities is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412336,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57872\/revisions\/412336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}