{"id":1107,"date":"2003-04-12T16:13:40","date_gmt":"2003-04-13T06:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/12\/priceless-historic-treasures-looted\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T16:21:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T00:21:46","slug":"priceless-historic-treasures-looted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/12\/priceless-historic-treasures-looted\/","title":{"rendered":"Priceless historic treasures looted"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14869,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.guardian.co.uk\\\/Iraq\\\/Story\\\/0,2763,935838,00.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.theguardian.com\\\/Iraq\\\/Story\\\/0,2763,935838,00.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>This hurt to read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The world&#8217;s first written words <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Iraq\/Story\/0,2763,935838,00.html\" title=\"Looters trash museum's treasures\">may have been lost forever<\/a>. After surviving for more than 5,000 years, distinctive clay tablets that are recognised as the root of all mankind&#8217;s written communication have either been destroyed or stolen in yesterday&#8217;s looting of the Iraqi national museum.<\/p>\n<p>  In addition to the tablets containing cuneiform writing &#8211; which utilises symbols chipped into the clay using wedge-shaped tools &#8211; thieves also took some of the world&#8217;s earliest examples of mathematics. These include calculations that have directly led to the modern system of timekeeping using hours, minutes and seconds based on the number six.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s first written words may have been lost forever. After surviving for more than 5,000 years, distinctive clay tablets that are recognised as the root of all mankind&#8217;s written communication have either been destroyed or stolen in yesterday&#8217;s looting of the Iraqi national museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}