{"id":211248,"date":"2022-10-20T18:44:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T13:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=211248"},"modified":"2022-12-08T14:12:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T08:42:27","slug":"lothal-oldest-dock-in-the-world-to-get-heritage-complex-features-significance-of-the-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lothal-oldest-dock-in-the-world-to-get-heritage-complex-features-significance-of-the-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Lothal, \u2018oldest dock in the world\u2019, to get heritage complex: Features, significance of the project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cLothal, \u2018oldest dock in the world\u2019, to get heritage complex: Features, significance of the project\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Indian Express <\/b>on<b> 20th October 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Prime Minister has reviewed the construction of the National Maritime Heritage Complex (NMHC) site at Lothal, Gujarat.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About Lothal<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lothal was one of the southernmost sites of the Indus Valley civilization located in the Bh\u0101l region of what is now the state of Gujarat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The port city is believed to have been built in 2,200 BC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lothal was a thriving trade center in ancient times with its trade of beads, gems and ornaments reaching West Asia and Africa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The meaning of Lothal (a combination of Loth and (s) thal) in Gujarati is \u201cthe mound of the dead\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Archaeologist SR Rao led the team which discovered a number of Harappan sites at the time, including the port city of Lothal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Features of Lothal<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Lothal had the world\u2019s earliest known dock, connecting the city to an ancient course of the Sabarmati river.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 National Institute of Oceanography in Goa discovered marine microfossils and salt, gypsum crystals at the site indicating that seawater once filled the structure, and it was definitely a dockyard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 In later excavations, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) unearthed a mound, a township, a marketplace and a dock.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About National Maritime Heritage Complex(NMHC)\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pm-reviews-work-in-progress-of-national-maritime-heritage-complex-site-at-lothal-gujarat\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cLothal, \u2018oldest dock in the world\u2019, to get heritage complex: Features, significance of the project\u201d published in Indian Express on 20th October 2022. What is the News? The Prime Minister has reviewed the construction of the National Maritime Heritage Complex (NMHC) site at Lothal, Gujarat. About Lothal&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lothal-oldest-dock-in-the-world-to-get-heritage-complex-features-significance-of-the-project\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lothal, \u2018oldest dock in the world\u2019, to get heritage complex: Features, significance of the project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11212,7965,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-211248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702003364},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}