{"id":27809,"date":"2024-11-07T03:53:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T22:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27809"},"modified":"2025-04-08T12:29:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T06:59:22","slug":"ancient-town-al-natah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ancient-town-al-natah\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Town: Al-Natah"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Al-Natah:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>French archaeologist Guillaume Charloux and his crew<\/strong> led the discovery.<\/li>\n<li>Excavation at the Khaybar oasis has found that a sophisticated <strong>Bronze Age town existed between 2400 and 1500 BCE.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong> The town reveals-\n<ul>\n<li>The presence of an <strong>organised settlement<\/strong> in an era previously believed to be dominated by <strong>nomadic pastoral societies<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>It is enclosed by a <strong>14.5-kilometre wall and occupying a 2.6-hectare area<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>It housed up to <strong>500 residents who lived in multi-story dwellings.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The town was likely a centre for agricultural production and trade, sustaining a cooperative society in the otherwise arid environment.<\/li>\n<li>Residents of Al-Natah lived in <strong>rectangular dwellings,<\/strong> constructed from materials such as <strong>stone and mudbrick, with narrow paths connecting the various structures<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The town\u2019s layout <strong>included burial sites, with some graves and tiered towers marking higher social status.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>A similar town in southern Saudi Arabia, <strong>Al Faw, was given Unesco World Heritage Site status this year.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1.<\/strong> What is the C-14 dating method?<\/h3>\n<p>Carbon-14 (C-14) dating is a radiometric dating method used to determine the age of organic materials that were once alive. It relies on measuring the decay of radioactive carbon-14 isotope in the material to estimate its age.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/feature\/al-natah-4-000-year-old-ancient-town-discovered-in-saudi-arabian-oasis-6931813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Al-Natah: 4,000-Year-Old Ancient Town Discovered In Saudi Arabian Oasis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists have discovered a fortified town in northwest Saudi Arabia that dates back 4,000 years. The town, known as al-Natah, was located within Khaybar&#8217;s walled oasis, a lush area amidst the desert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}