{"id":334779,"date":"2025-04-29T12:15:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T06:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=334779"},"modified":"2025-05-01T14:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T08:32:38","slug":"ancient-muziris-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ancient-muziris-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Muziris Port"},"content":{"rendered":"

News- <\/strong>Historian MGS Narayanan, a pivotal figure behind the Muziris Heritage Project (MHP), was remembered in the Kerala State Assembly. Ancient Muziris Port.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Ancient<\/p>\n

About Ancient Muziris Port<\/h2>\n

Location<\/strong>: It was located on the Malabar Coast<\/em> in present-day Kerala.<\/p>\n

Historical Period<\/strong>: It was active from around the 1st century BCE to the early medieval period.<\/p>\n

Historical references<\/strong>: It was also mentioned in the writings of Pliny the Elder<\/em> and in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Trade significance<\/strong>: It served as a major international trading port in the Indian Ocean network<\/em>. It connected South India with Persia, the Middle East, North Africa, and the Mediterranean (notably Greek and Roman civilizations).<\/p>\n

Major exports<\/strong>: It was renowned for its spice trade, especially black pepper<\/em>, often
\ncalled black gold. Other items of export included semi-precious stones, ivory, pearls,<\/em>
\netc.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News- Historian MGS Narayanan, a pivotal figure behind the Muziris Heritage Project (MHP), was remembered in the Kerala State Assembly. Ancient Muziris Port. About Ancient Muziris Port Location: It was located on the Malabar Coast in present-day Kerala. Historical Period: It was active from around the 1st century BCE to the early medieval period. Historical… Continue reading Ancient Muziris Port<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":335182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11212,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-334779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ancient-Muziris-Port.png?fit=1280%2C850&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334779","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\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}