{"id":14116,"date":"2015-03-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/03\/22\/pre-angkorian-archaeological-treasure-sees-light-in-southern-laos\/"},"modified":"2015-03-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T12:00:00","slug":"pre-angkorian-archaeological-treasure-sees-light-in-southern-laos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/03\/22\/pre-angkorian-archaeological-treasure-sees-light-in-southern-laos\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Angkorian Archaeological Treasure Sees Light in Southern Laos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/912633.shtml\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LAOS, March 18, 2015 (Global Times): A large 7th century artifact described as one of the most significant archaeological items ever found in Laos has been unearthed at a world heritage site in the country&#8217;s south, local media reported Wednesday. The discovery was made during archaeological excavations at Phou Kao, a mountain site associated with the UNESCO World Heritage Listed Vat Phou complex in the southern province of Champassak, state-run media Vientiane Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>The piece, featuring carvings of figures from Hindu scripture and stories, measures 7 ft. by 3 ft. wide. The 8.5-inch-thick sculpture was located under a 8 inch layer of debris. Sivone Vangkhonevilay, Deputy Director of Champassak Provincial Department of Information, Culture and Tourism, hailed the discovery of the piece, which was likely attached to a shrine gate. &#8220;This is considered to be the most special and rare discovery in our country that archeologists have ever made, particularly regarding the historical value of the sculpture.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source LAOS, March 18, 2015 (Global Times): A large 7th century artifact described as one of the most significant archaeological,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}