{"id":183,"date":"2020-05-24T00:36:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T23:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2023-06-02T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T12:34:00","slug":"our-terraced-past-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Our Terraced Past (Part 2) – Varandha Ghat, India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Varandha Ghat, Western Ghats ‘Mountain Range’, India<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Western Ghats ‘mountain range’ offers some excellent examples of remains of artificial structures built in a terraced\/pyramidal style. This particular site is a popular vantage point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a>
Varandha Ghat in summer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Varandha<\/a>
Varandha Ghat in monsoon season (1)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Note the pattern on the right-hand side of the valley in the photo below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a>
Varandha Ghat in monsoon season (2)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Here is a closer look:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Varandha<\/a>
Varandha Ghat in monsoon season (3)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"A<\/a>
A different view of Varandha Ghat. A car can be seen in the image as a tiny dot which shows the scale of these structural remains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"A<\/a>
A view over the Western Ghats. The skyline shows a wealth of terraced and pyramidal structures. Note the 3 pyramids in the top left of the image. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Varandha Ghat, Western Ghats ‘Mountain Range’, India The Western Ghats ‘mountain range’ offers some excellent examples of remains of artificial structures built in a terraced\/pyramidal style. This particular site is a popular vantage point. Note the pattern on the right-hand side of the valley in the photo below: Here is a closer look:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terraced-domed-structures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}