{"id":173850,"date":"2010-01-13T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-5664976008106150281"},"modified":"2010-01-13T06:29:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T11:29:08","slug":"in-the-field-iran-wishes-to-investigate-cambyses-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/173850","title":{"rendered":"In the field:  Iran wishes to investigate Cambyses find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail.aspx?id=115822&amp;sectionid=351020105\">presstv.ir <\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is no indication as to whether the Egyptian government has given the ok to Iran to study the remains.  It seems unlikely.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A group of Iranian archeologists is planning to go to Egypt to study the remains of a great Persian army in the Sahara desert.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (ICHTO) Hamid Baqaei announced on Sunday that Egypt had agreed for the Iranian group to conduct studies there.<\/p>\n<p>Two Italian brothers claimed to have found the remains of a great army sent by the Persian King Cambyses II to attack the Oasis of Siwa 2,500 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt&#8217;s chief archeologist Zahi Hawass, however, rejected the discovery as &#8220;unfounded and misleading,&#8221; adding that as the Italian brothers had not been granted legal permission to excavate in Egypt their claims of having made a discovery was not credible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have sent a letter to Egyptian cultural heritage officials and they have implicitly confirmed the existence of the remains of the Persian army,&#8221; IRNA quoted Baqaei as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have also stated that the finds belong to the Egyptian government.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-5664976008106150281?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>presstv.ir There is no indication as to whether the Egyptian government has given the ok to Iran to study the remains. It seems unlikely. A group of Iranian archeologists is planning to go to Egypt to study the remains of a great Persian army in the Sahara desert. Iran&#8217;s Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}