{"id":503,"date":"2020-08-21T16:19:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T16:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paleocentralasia.com\/?page_id=503"},"modified":"2023-09-26T11:31:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T11:31:05","slug":"istikskaya-cave","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.paleocentralasia.com\/?page_id=503","title":{"rendered":"Istikskaya cave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-hero alignfull coblocks-hero-721194710649\"><div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-hero__inner has-parallax bg-cover has-background-image bg-no-repeat bg-center-center hero-center-left-align has-padding has-huge-padding is-fullscreen\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.paleocentralasia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/\u0411\u0435\u0437-\u0438\u043c\u0435\u043d\u0438-1.jpg)\"><div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-hero__content-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-hero__content\" style=\"max-width:560px\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Istikskaya cave<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-quaternary-background-color has-background\">Istikskaya cave is multilayer archaeological site, located in Eastern Pamir in elevation 4000 masl. The site was discovered and excavated in 1970th by V.A. Zhukov. Our team re-new a field work of the site in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">Read MORE<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped has-lightbox wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"1411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paleocentralasia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/photo1695723077-1-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paleocentralasia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/photo1695723077-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, 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