{"id":276532,"date":"2018-11-27T10:58:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T10:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/27\/painting-from-scott-expedition-discovered-in\/"},"modified":"2018-11-27T10:58:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T10:58:20","slug":"painting-from-scott-expedition-discovered-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/27\/painting-from-scott-expedition-discovered-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting from Scott expedition discovered in Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archaeologicalnews.tumblr.com\/post\/161821548252\/painting-from-scott-expedition-discovered-in\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">archaeologicalnews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/72b83254e59421ccc6bf8736555b4ee2\/tumblr_inline_orjut4La4A1qgjbhq_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><b>The mystery of a beautifully painted watercolour of a dead bird that was found in Antarctica\u2019s oldest building has been solved.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The painting of a Tree Creeper was in a hut built by Norwegian explorers and later used by the Scott expedition.<\/p>\n<p>The image was found in a pile of papers covered in mould and penguin excrement.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed to be by British scientist Dr Edward Wilson, who died on the ill-fated Scott expedition to the South Pole in 1912.<\/p>\n<p>Antarctic Heritage Trust paper conservator Josefin Bergmark-Jimenez described the find as the greatest moment in her career. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-40245227\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>archaeologicalnews: The mystery of a beautifully painted watercolour of a dead bird that was found in Antarctica\u2019s oldest building has been solved. The painting of a Tree Creeper was in a hut built by Norwegian explorers and later used by the Scott expedition. The image was found in a pile of papers covered in mould &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/27\/painting-from-scott-expedition-discovered-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Painting from Scott expedition discovered in Antarctica&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[185,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}