{"id":2385,"date":"2014-08-19T15:52:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T15:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2014-08-19T15:52:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T15:52:41","slug":"1000-year-old-islamic-cemetery-found-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/1000-year-old-islamic-cemetery-found-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"1,000-year-old Islamic cemetery found in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cemetery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2386\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cemetery.jpg\" alt=\"Cemetery\" width=\"402\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cemetery.jpg 402w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cemetery-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><\/a>Researchers in Spain have unearthed a 1,000-year-old Islamic burial ground which they believe could provide up to two centuries worth of information on the region&#8217;s Islamic history.<br \/>\nAfter two weeks of digging in the town of Alc\u00e1zar de San Juan in the Ciudad Real province, researchers from the University of Castilla-La Mancha University have found an ancient Islamic necropolis containing seven bodies.<br \/>\nProject leader V\u00edctor L\u00f3pez Menchero told The Local that all of the bodies are positioned facing towards Mecca and is one of the few pieces of evidence that Muslims lived in Castilla-La Mancha.<br \/>\nIslam has had a fundamental presence in the culture and history of Spain. The religion was present in modern Spanish soil from 709 until 1614 beginning with Arab rule and ending with the expulsion of the Moriscos of Al-Andalus.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/1000-year-old-islamic-cemetery-found-in-spain\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in Spain have unearthed a 1,000-year-old Islamic burial ground which they believe could provide up to two centuries worth of information on the region&#8217;s Islamic history. After two weeks of digging in the town of Alc\u00e1zar de San Juan in the Ciudad Real province, researchers from the University of Castilla-La Mancha University have found &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions\/2387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}