{"id":1105,"date":"2010-06-24T12:51:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T12:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2010\/06\/lands-of-the-bible-2010-laodicea-and-hierapolis-i.html"},"modified":"2010-06-24T12:51:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T12:51:06","slug":"lands-of-the-bible-2010-laodicea-and-hierapolis-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2010\/06\/lands-of-the-bible-2010-laodicea-and-hierapolis-i.html","title":{"rendered":"Lands of the Bible 2010&#8211;Laodicea and Hierapolis I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/Bble%20Lands%202010%20382.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" alt=\"Bble Lands 2010 382.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/137\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/06\/Bble Lands 2010 382-thumb-500x888-15238.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"888\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/Bble%20Lands%202010%20384.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" alt=\"Bble Lands 2010 384.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/137\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/06\/Bble Lands 2010 384-thumb-500x281-15240.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><\/span>The alert reader will know that I have already, last year posted a good deal of material on the massive archaeological dig at Laodicea (while Colossae still remains undug at all) and we have also posted a good deal of info on Hierapolis as well. Here then we will simply give some updates.&nbsp;&nbsp; Firstly,&nbsp; the dig at Laodicea continues to be very impressive.&nbsp; We were unfortunately experiencing the Hamsin (a dust storm) on the day we were there so the pictures don&#8217;t involve bright sunlight. The&nbsp;second picture below shows the main or so called Damascus street and all the massive marble columns that are to be reassembled.&nbsp; The picture above at the very top shows the results of such reassembling, giving a good idea of the monumental nature of what this street would have originally looked like. The second picture above is of the Western theater, a description of which you find immediately below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/Bble%20Lands%202010%20385.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" alt=\"Bble Lands 2010 385.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/137\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/06\/Bble Lands 2010 385-thumb-500x888-15243.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"888\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/Bble%20Lands%202010%20383.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" alt=\"Bble Lands 2010 383.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/137\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/06\/Bble Lands 2010 383-thumb-500x888-15236.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"888\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alert reader will know that I have already, last year posted a good deal of material on the massive archaeological dig at Laodicea (while Colossae still remains undug at all) and we have also posted a good deal of info on Hierapolis as well. Here then we will simply give some updates.&nbsp;&nbsp; Firstly,&nbsp; the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lands of the Bible 2010-Laodicea and Hierapolis I - The Bible and Culture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2010\/06\/lands-of-the-bible-2010-laodicea-and-hierapolis-i.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lands of the Bible 2010-Laodicea and Hierapolis I - The Bible and Culture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The alert reader will know that I have already, last year posted a good deal of material on the massive archaeological dig at Laodicea (while Colossae still remains undug at all) and we have also posted a good deal of info on Hierapolis as well. 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