{"id":7180,"date":"2025-03-22T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/alpha\/?p=7180"},"modified":"2025-08-10T10:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T10:31:04","slug":"abhayagiriya-project-commenced-archaeological-excavations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/abhayagiriya-project-commenced-archaeological-excavations\/","title":{"rendered":"Abhayagiriya Project commenced archaeological excavations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Central Cultural Fund\u2019s Abhayagiriya Project commenced archaeological excavations of the pond adjacent to the eastern entrance of the Abhayagiri Stupa on 20\/03\/2025 at an auspicious time.The aim of this work is to preserve the structures belonging to the pond, conduct formal documentation, and then present them to the public for architectural preservation.The excavation work commenced with the blessings of the Venerable Maha Sangha with the participation of Project Manager Thusitha Herath and project officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"7181\" src=\"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-21-at-15.42.23_86160448-1024x576-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-21-at-15.42.23_86160448-1024x576-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-21-at-15.42.23_86160448-1024x576-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"7183\" 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excavations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unnamed-file-960x608-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unnamed-file-960x608-1-300x190.jpg",300,190,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unnamed-file-960x608-1.jpg",768,486,false],"large":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unnamed-file-960x608-1.jpg",950,602,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unnamed-file-960x608-1.jpg",960,608,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unnamed-file-960x608-1.jpg",960,608,false],"inspiro-featured-image":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unnamed-file-960x608-1.jpg",960,608,false],"inspiro-loop":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unnamed-file-960x608-1-950x320.jpg",950,320,true],"inspiro-loop@2x":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unnamed-file-960x608-1.jpg",960,608,false],"portfolio_item-thumbnail":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unnamed-file-960x608-1-600x400.jpg",600,400,true],"portfolio_item-thumbnail@2x":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unnamed-file-960x608-1.jpg",960,608,false],"portfolio_item-masonry":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unnamed-file-960x608-1-600x380.jpg",600,380,true],"portfolio_item-masonry@2x":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unnamed-file-960x608-1.jpg",960,608,false],"portfolio_item-thumbnail_cinema":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unnamed-file-960x608-1-800x335.jpg",800,335,true],"portfolio_item-thumbnail_portrait":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unnamed-file-960x608-1-600x608.jpg",600,608,true],"portfolio_item-thumbnail_portrait@2x":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unnamed-file-960x608-1.jpg",960,608,false],"portfolio_item-thumbnail_square":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unnamed-file-960x608-1-800x608.jpg",800,608,true]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7187,"href":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180\/revisions\/7187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}