{"id":23952,"date":"2021-10-16T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=23952"},"modified":"2021-10-16T12:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T12:00:17","slug":"wheels-fit-for-a-king-chinese-archaeologists-bring-elaborate-bronze-age-chariot-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=23952","title":{"rendered":"Wheels fit for a king? Chinese archaeologists bring elaborate Bronze Age chariot back to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAn archaeology team has restored the original look of a 2,800-year-old chariot that may have been one of the most expensive vehicles built in the ancient world.The three-metre (10ft) wide chariot dates back to around 800BC, the time of the Western Zhou, and was found near the dynasty\u2019s first capital in modern-day Shaanxi province.It ran on a pair of wooden spoke wheels and the frame would have been covered with bronze and decorated inside and out by metallic sculptures and gemstones.\u201cThis is\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3152468\/wheels-fit-king-chinese-archaeologists-bring-elaborate-bronze?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAn archaeology team has restored the original look of a 2,800-year-old chariot that may have been one of the most expensive vehicles built in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23952"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}