{"id":1949,"date":"2007-03-04T11:53:25","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T11:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2007-03-04T11:53:25","modified_gmt":"2007-03-04T11:53:25","slug":"therein-lies-a-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1949","title":{"rendered":"Therein lies a tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not often that archaeology can tell a story about an individual event, but Mary Beard has been <a href = \"http:\/\/timesonline.typepad.com\/dons_life\/2007\/03\/the_roman_crown.html\">visiting an exhibition in Rome<\/a> that may tell a tale about the fall of the Roman emperor Maxentius and his fall to Constantine.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of one of my favourite archaeological sites in the world, Dura Europos, where <a href = \"http:\/\/www.le.ac.uk\/archaeology\/stj\/dura.htm#destruc\">the remains of a battle<\/a> were preserved in situ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not often that archaeology can tell a story about an individual event, but Mary Beard has been visiting an exhibition in Rome that may tell a tale about the fall of the Roman emperor Maxentius and his fall to Constantine. It reminds me of one of my favourite archaeological sites in the world, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}