{"id":2979,"date":"2025-07-24T12:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/the-romanian-archways-on-the-great-northern-river\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:18:22","slug":"the-romanian-archways-on-the-great-northern-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/the-romanian-archways-on-the-great-northern-river\/","title":{"rendered":"The Romanian Archways on the Great Northern  River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Believed to have been constructed in the late 1st century BCE by order of King Herod the Great, the Roman aqueducts of Nahr al-Kabir once formed part of an impressive hydraulic network. These ancient channels were engineered to transport fresh water from the northern Nahr al-Kabir River all the way to Latakia, serving the needs of a growing urban population.<\/p>\n<p>Though little of the original structure remains today, historical references and travelers\u2019 accounts bear witness to the scale and significance of this remarkable feat of Roman engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believed to have been constructed in the late 1st century BCE by order of King Herod the Great, the Roman aqueducts of Nahr al-Kabir once formed part of an impressive hydraulic network. These ancient channels were engineered to transport fresh water from the northern Nahr al-Kabir River all the way to Latakia, serving the needs of a growing urban population. Though little of the original structure remains today, historical references and travelers\u2019 accounts bear witness to the scale and significance of this remarkable feat of Roman engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[286,208],"tags":[241],"class_list":["post-2979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical-landmarks-latakia","category-latakia","tag-partially-destroyed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}