{"id":13319,"date":"2024-06-14T16:57:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T16:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13319"},"modified":"2024-06-27T16:59:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T16:59:49","slug":"still-discovering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/06\/14\/still-discovering\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Discovering&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/06\/14\/science\/crete-4000-year-old-building-intl-scli-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"maincontent\">Greek archaeologists discover mysterious 4,000-year-old building on hill earmarked for new airport<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By the Associated Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13320\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The 4,000-year-old building was discovered on a hill in Crete, Greece, on a site earmarked for the development of a new airport.\u00a0<br>Greek Culture Ministry\/AP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A big, round, 4,000-year-old stone building discovered on a Cretan hilltop is puzzling archaeologists and threatening to disrupt a major airport project on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2024\/06\/12\/climate\/greece-shuts-acropolis-heat-climate-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Greek tourist<\/a>\u00a0island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greece\u2019s Culture Ministry said Tuesday that the structure is a \u201cunique and extremely interesting find\u201d from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/style\/article\/ancient-single-use-cup-intl-scli-gbr-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Crete\u2019s Minoan civilization<\/a>, famous for its sumptuous palaces, flamboyant art and enigmatic writing system. Resembling a huge car wheel from above, the ruins of the labyrinthine, 1,800-square-meter (19,000-square-foot) building came to light during a recent dig by archaeologists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The site was earmarked for a radar station to serve a new airport under construction near the town of Kastelli. Set to open in 2027, it\u2019s projected to replace Greece\u2019s second-biggest airport at Heraklion, and designed to handle up to 18 million travelers annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/06\/14\/science\/crete-4000-year-old-building-intl-scli-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at CNN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CNN Greek archaeologists discover mysterious 4,000-year-old building on hill earmarked for new airport By the Associated Press A big, round, 4,000-year-old stone building discovered on a Cretan hilltop is puzzling archaeologists and threatening to disrupt a major airport project on the\u00a0Greek tourist\u00a0island. Greece\u2019s Culture Ministry said Tuesday that the structure is a \u201cunique and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}