{"id":211831,"date":"2026-07-18T06:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T06:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/211831\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T06:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T06:19:09","slug":"the-mysterious-ancient-israeli-site-attracting-modern-pilgrims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/211831\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mysterious, Ancient Israeli Site Attracting Modern Pilgrims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">Thirty-three years ago, Nicolas Namiech first heard about Rujm el-Hiri. His girlfriend, who later became his wife, had heard about the ancient, mysterious site in the Golan Heights and wanted to see it. At the time, and for years afterward, there were no signs directing visitors there. Armed with directions written by a friend, they parked at Daliot Junction and set out on foot, only to get lost, as many others have. The site is easy to spot from space but remarkably easy to miss from the ground, even when you&#8217;re standing right beside it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thirty-three years ago, Nicolas Namiech first heard about Rujm el-Hiri. His girlfriend, who later became his wife, had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[58907,669,2336,37,17189,37771],"class_list":["post-211831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-environment-nature","tag-golan-heights","tag-history","tag-israel","tag-israel-archaeology","tag-science-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116939532973934132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}