{"id":290,"date":"2020-06-08T14:43:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T13:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2020-06-21T14:47:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T13:47:42","slug":"hingol-national-park-balochistan-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Hingol National Park, Balochistan, Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Figure 1: Hingol National Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This area offers excellent remains of our past. Online discussion generally questions whether two of the more iconic features of the site, the so-called ‘Balochistan Sphinx’ (Fig. 2) and ‘Princess of Hope’ (Fig. 3) are of artificial origin. Whether it was originally a statue of a sphinx or not, it is definitely not simply a ‘natural rock formation’. The larger area is comprised of the remains of structures and warrants further scrutiny. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Images can be clicked for higher resolution versions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 2: Hingol National Park – ‘Balochistan Sphinx’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 3: Hingol National Park – ‘Princess of Hope’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 4: Hingol National Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 5: Hingol National Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 6: Hingol National Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 7: Hingol National Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 8: Hingol National Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 9: Hingol National Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 10: Hingol National Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Even the image used for the Wikipedia entry leaves no doubt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 11: Hingol National Park – Wikipedia image
Credit: Asad.aman83, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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This area offers excellent remains of our past. Online discussion generally questions whether two of the more iconic features of the site, the so-called ‘Balochistan Sphinx’ (Fig. 2) and ‘Princess of Hope’ (Fig. 3) are of artificial origin. Whether it was originally a statue of a sphinx or not, it is definitely not simply a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-structures","category-terraced-domed-structures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","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=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}