{"id":30470,"date":"2016-01-29T10:25:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T17:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=30470"},"modified":"2016-01-29T10:25:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T17:25:23","slug":"restoring-petra-byu-archaeologists-restoring-ancient-waterworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/01\/restoring-petra-byu-archaeologists-restoring-ancient-waterworks.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Restoring Petra: BYU Archaeologists Restoring Ancient Waterworks&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30471\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30471\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/01\/Petra-Khazneh1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30471\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/01\/Petra-Khazneh1.jpg\" alt=\"The Khazneh of al-Batra\u2019\" width=\"430\" height=\"600\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petra\u2019s \u201cKhazneh\u201d or \u201cTreasury\u201d<br>(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You may have visited the place. \u00a0Almost certainly you know it as the place where Indiana Jone encounters the Holy Grail, the chalice from the Last Supper of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Professor Finlayson, whom I\u2019ve known for years, is doing really good work there:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/byuphoto.exposure.co\/restoring-petra\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/byuphoto.exposure.co\/restoring-petra<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Salt Lake City, Utah<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 You may have visited the place. \u00a0Almost certainly you know it as the place where Indiana Jone encounters the Holy Grail, the chalice from the Last Supper of Jesus. \u00a0 Professor Finlayson, whom I\u2019ve known for years, is doing really good work there: \u00a0 https:\/\/byuphoto.exposure.co\/restoring-petra \u00a0 Posted from Salt Lake City, Utah \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Restoring Petra: BYU Archaeologists Restoring Ancient Waterworks&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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