{"id":209369,"date":"2025-10-09T19:45:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-the-royal-commission-for-alula-launches-2025-2026-archaeology-season-to-advance-research-and-discoveries-in-alula-and-khaybar\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:45:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:45:50","slug":"sudan-the-royal-commission-for-alula-launches-2025-2026-archaeology-season-to-advance-research-and-discoveries-in-alula-and-khaybar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-the-royal-commission-for-alula-launches-2025-2026-archaeology-season-to-advance-research-and-discoveries-in-alula-and-khaybar\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: The Royal Commission for Alula Launches 2025-2026 Archaeology Season to Advance Research and Discoveries in Alula and Khaybar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">The Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) has announced the launch of the 2025-2026 Archaeology and Conservation Fieldwork Season, reinforcing AlUla&#8217;s growing prominence on the global stage as a leading hub for archaeological research and cultural heritage preservation. The initiative brings together Saudi and international research teams conducting extensive fieldwork across AlUla and Khaybar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Part of a broader vision positioning AlUla at the heart of scientific and cultural inquiry, the new season&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510090470.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) has announced the launch of the 2025-2026 Archaeology and Conservation Fieldwork Season, reinforcing AlUla&#8217;s growing prominence on the global stage as a leading hub for archaeological research and cultural heritage preservation. The initiative brings together Saudi and international research teams conducting extensive fieldwork across AlUla and Khaybar. Part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":209370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[11688,258,256,52533,17440,6274,17307,52534,5957,257,6712,6577,8098,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-209369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-advance","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alula","tag-archaeology","tag-commission","tag-discoveries","tag-khaybar","tag-launches","tag-news","tag-research","tag-royal","tag-season","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}