{"id":3612,"date":"2025-07-24T12:39:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/dawayat-cave\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:51:14","slug":"dawayat-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/dawayat-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawayat cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dawiyat Cave is the oldest cave in the region. It was discovered in 1948 when a sheep fell into one of its natural openings, and was practically explored in 1956 by a team of researchers.<br \/>\nDuring both the Ottoman and French occupations, it served as a refuge for revolutionaries and fugitives.<br \/>\nThe name Dawiyat is derived from the Syrian dialect word for light (daw), referring to the light that penetrates the cave through its openings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dawiyat Cave is the oldest cave in the region. It was discovered in 1948 when a sheep fell into one of its natural openings, and was practically explored in 1956 by a team of researchers. During both the Ottoman and French occupations, it served as a refuge for revolutionaries and fugitives. The name Dawiyat is derived from the Syrian dialect word for light (daw), referring to the light that penetrates the cave through its openings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[297,294],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical-landmarks-tartus","category-tartus","tag-preserved-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612","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=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}