{"id":142,"date":"2011-08-26T04:08:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T04:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archaeology.sa\/?p=142"},"modified":"2013-06-26T10:32:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T10:32:31","slug":"saudi-arabia-discovers-9000-year-old-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia discovers 9,000 year-old civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/0011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-277\" alt=\"A new archeological site named al-Maqar, after the site's location in Saudi Arabia\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/0011-300x222.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/0011-300x222.jpg 300w, wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/0011.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Saudi Arabia is excavating a new archaeological site that will show horses were domesticated 9,000 years ago in the Arabian peninsula, the country&#8217;s antiquities expert said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This discovery will change our knowledge concerning the domestication of horses and the evolution of culture in the late Neolithic period,&#8221; Ghabban told a news conference in the Red Sea port of Jeddah.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Maqar Civilization is a very advanced civilization of the Neolithic period. This site shows us clearly, the roots of the domestication of horses 9,000 years ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The site also includes remains of mummified skeletons, arrowheads, scrapers, grain grinders, tools for spinning and weaving, and other tools that are evidence of a civilization that is skilled in handicrafts.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia, the world&#8217;s largest oil exporter, is trying to diversify its economy away from oil and hopes to increase its tourism.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the SCTA launched exhibitions in Barcelona&#8217;s CaixaForum museum and Paris&#8217;s Louvre museum showcasing historic findings of the Arabian Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Asma Alsharif; Editing by Angus MacSwan)<\/p>\n<p>Reuters<\/p>\n<div id=\"articleInfo\">\n<p>JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia | Thu Aug 25, 2011<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia is excavating a new archaeological site that will show horses were domesticated 9,000 years ago in the Arabian peninsula, the country&#8217;s antiquities expert said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}