{"id":265958,"date":"2023-10-23T18:42:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T13:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=265958"},"modified":"2023-10-23T18:42:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T13:12:38","slug":"%e2%82%b92-9-crore-project-to-improve-amenities-around-edakkal-caves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/%e2%82%b92-9-crore-project-to-improve-amenities-around-edakkal-caves\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20b92.9-crore project to improve amenities around Edakkal Caves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c\u20b92.9-crore project to improve amenities around Edakkal Caves\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 23rd October 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kerala Tourism has launched a project to improve civic amenities around the Edakkal Caves in Wayanad.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Where is Edakkal Caves?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Located in: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wayanad,Kerala<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Hills: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The caves are located 3,900 feet above sea level in the Ambukuthi Hills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Meaning<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Edakkal Caves are not actually caves. They are part of a prehistoric rock shelter formed naturally when one huge boulder got wedged between two bigger ones. That&#8217;s why the name Edakkal itself means \u201ca stone in between\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Features:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The caves feature Neolithic-era pictorial writings dating back to at least 6,000 BCE.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The cave has engravings of human and animal figures besides symbols and letters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The Muniyaras or ancient burial sites have been discovered in these caves.This has yielded a rich collection of ancient earthenware and pottery.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201c\u20b92.9-crore project to improve amenities around Edakkal Caves\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 23rd October 2023 What is the News? Kerala Tourism has launched a project to improve civic amenities around the Edakkal Caves in Wayanad. Where is Edakkal Caves? Located in: Wayanad,Kerala Hills: The caves are&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/%e2%82%b92-9-crore-project-to-improve-amenities-around-edakkal-caves\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u20b92.9-crore project to improve amenities around Edakkal Caves<\/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":[1566,11212,1],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-265958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-uncategorized","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":166,"cached_at":1698385471,"cached_date":1698473616},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265958","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=265958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}