{"id":49239,"date":"2021-08-22T05:38:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T02:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=49239"},"modified":"2021-08-22T05:38:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T02:38:08","slug":"lovecraft-was-right-part-567","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/08\/22\/lovecraft-was-right-part-567\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lovecraft was right&#8217; &#8211; part 567"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the editorial accompanying the cover-story in the latest<em> New Scientist<\/em> magazine&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many of the researchers who work [in the Arabian desert] were told not to bother because &#8220;there was no prehistory in Arabia&#8221; and were even laughed at. Those researchers are getting the last laugh. As the [magazine&#8217;s] feature explains, it turns out there is an enormous amount of prehistory in Arabia: [over just one decade the Palaeodeserts \/ DISPERSE teams found] dozens of archaeological sites, often with rich collections of artefacts, that date back 500,000 years and perhaps further.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/arabia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/arabia.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"222\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49241\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Lovecraft in a letter of 1927, outlining the career of the author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/pdfs\/annotated_necronomicon_6x9.pdf\">The Necronomicon<\/a><\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred [ventured into] the devil-haunted &amp; untrodden wastes of the great southern deserts of Arabia &mdash; the Raba el Khaliyeh [&#8216;Empty Quarter&#8217;] &mdash; where he claimed to have found records of things older than mankind, &amp; to have learnt the worship of Yog-Sothoth &amp; Cthulhu.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the editorial accompanying the cover-story in the latest New Scientist magazine&#8230; Many of the researchers who work [in the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/08\/22\/lovecraft-was-right-part-567\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}