{"id":1019,"date":"2011-10-11T08:17:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T08:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2011-10-11T11:57:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T11:57:22","slug":"garden-history-biblical-archeology-and-mysterious-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2011\/10\/11\/garden-history-biblical-archeology-and-mysterious-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden history, biblical archeology and mysterious numbers."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1020\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/babylon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1020\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1020  \" title=\"babylon\" src=\"http:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/babylon.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Heemskerck Hanging Gardens of Babylon\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/babylon.jpg 556w, https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/babylon-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1020\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Martin Heemskerck<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span>Course launches have just completed and over 1300 students have embarked on another term of online learning with us.\u00a0 This term we have launched 3 new courses:<\/span><span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conted.ox.ac.uk\/V400-142\" target=\"_blank\">Archaeology of the Bible Lands<\/a><\/span><span>;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.conted.ox.ac.uk\/V100-96\" target=\"_blank\"> The Number Mysteries<\/a> and <\/span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conted.ox.ac.uk\/V200-48\" target=\"_blank\">English Landscape Gardens: 1650 to the Present Day<\/a> , and I am very pleased to have discovered an image which combines a biblical garden with a vaguely\u00a0 Escher like (that&#8217;s mathematical!) ambiance.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Having been in involved in the development of all our courses, I do think that these are 3 of the most enjoyable courses we have ever created and the students on them are going to have a fabulous time.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> Enrollments have closed for this term, but if any of these, or our other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conted.ox.ac.uk\/courses\/online\/short\/index.php\">50+ online courses<\/a> look interesting to you, do come and visit to make your choices for January, when we will also have a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conted.ox.ac.uk\/L100-6\">Macroeconomics course <\/a>available to help you understand what economists think is happening to the world right now.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Image:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hauntedpalace\/232968544\/\"> Hanging Gardens of Babylon<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hauntedpalace\/\" rel=\"cc:attributionURL\">Carla216<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" rel=\"xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license xh:license license\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Course launches have just completed and over 1300 students have embarked on another term of online learning with us.\u00a0 This term we have launched 3 new courses: Archaeology of the Bible Lands;\u00a0 The Number Mysteries and English Landscape Gardens: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2011\/10\/11\/garden-history-biblical-archeology-and-mysterious-numbers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-launches","category-short-courses","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}