{"id":1339,"date":"2014-04-17T15:56:39","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T15:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2023\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2014-04-17T15:56:39","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T15:56:39","slug":"newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2023\/discussion\/2014\/04\/newspapers\/","title":{"rendered":"City walls of Ostia on Isola Sacra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>In case some of you missed the post on the project websites:<\/p>\n<p>Some of the work we did on Isola Sacra is in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/archaeology\/size-matters-crucial-ancient-roman-city-ostia-was-40-bigger-than-previously-thought-after-british-team-uncovers-new-ruins-9265461.html\">news<\/a>, from Times of India to El Pais! It relates to the discovery that the city walls of Ostia incorporated a part of Isola Sacra, and did not end at the Tiber as previously believed. So the city was about 40% bigger than previously thought. Click on the images below for see more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2023\/files\/2014\/04\/14_67-Newly-discovered-features-at-Ostia_2_Satellite-imagery-courtesy-of-Digital-Globe-Inc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1341\" alt=\"14_67 Newly discovered features at Ostia_2_Satellite imagery courtesy of Digital Globe Inc\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2023\/files\/2014\/04\/14_67-Newly-discovered-features-at-Ostia_2_Satellite-imagery-courtesy-of-Digital-Globe-Inc-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2023\/files\/2014\/04\/14_67-Newly-discovered-features-at-Ostia_2_Satellite-imagery-courtesy-of-Digital-Globe-Inc-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2023\/files\/2014\/04\/14_67-Newly-discovered-features-at-Ostia_2_Satellite-imagery-courtesy-of-Digital-Globe-Inc-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2023\/files\/2014\/04\/14_67-Newly-discovered-features-at-Ostia_2_Satellite-imagery-courtesy-of-Digital-Globe-Inc-700x463.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2023\/files\/2014\/04\/14_67-Newly-discovered-features-at-Ostia_1_Satellite-imagery-courtesy-of-Digital-Globe-Inc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1340\" alt=\"14_67 Newly discovered features at Ostia_1_Satellite imagery courtesy of Digital Globe Inc\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2023\/files\/2014\/04\/14_67-Newly-discovered-features-at-Ostia_1_Satellite-imagery-courtesy-of-Digital-Globe-Inc-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2023\/files\/2014\/04\/14_67-Newly-discovered-features-at-Ostia_1_Satellite-imagery-courtesy-of-Digital-Globe-Inc-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2023\/files\/2014\/04\/14_67-Newly-discovered-features-at-Ostia_1_Satellite-imagery-courtesy-of-Digital-Globe-Inc-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2023\/files\/2014\/04\/14_67-Newly-discovered-features-at-Ostia_1_Satellite-imagery-courtesy-of-Digital-Globe-Inc-700x463.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portusproject.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/new-city-wall-discovered-ostia\/\">post on the Project website<\/a> for more info.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to see that an announcement of an archaeological discovery can stir up a bit of a media storm!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, In case some of you missed the post on the project websites: Some of the work we did on Isola Sacra is in today&#8217;s news, from Times of India to El Pais! It relates to the discovery that the city walls of Ostia incorporated a part of Isola Sacra, and did not end at the Tiber as previously believed. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[376888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1347,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}