{"id":75142,"date":"2021-03-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=75142"},"modified":"2021-03-26T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T10:51:47","slug":"400-year-old-tunnel-at-lahore-fort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/400-year-old-tunnel-at-lahore-fort.html","title":{"rendered":"WCLA discovers 400-year-old tunnel at Lahore Fort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lahore: The Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA) has announced the discovery of a 400-year old tunnel during a recent restoration effort at the Lahore Fort, according to a news source published on March 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wcla-proposes-five-star-hotel-construction-rim-market-circular-road-lahore.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WCLA proposes five-star hotel construction on Rim Market, Circular Road Lahore<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reportedly, the edifice dates back to the era of Emperor Akbar but only now it has been revealed. The four centuries-old tunnel in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/restoration-of-lahore-forts-shah-burj-gate-completes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Lahore Fort<\/a> is reported to be holding well on its own. It is sufficiently ventilated with holes every 10 feet for proper airflow and spaces to hang the lamps for light. The said structure also has a 625-foot-long tunnel for the purpose of draining as well to function as a secret passage going by the niches for lamps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As per the experts working on the project, the rehabilitation of the tunnel and the drain would be a difficult task owing to the fact that the tunnel was closed for over 400 years \u2013 and unlike other countries of the world where modern machinery and equipment for used for the restoration purposes, the team prefer a more traditional way of doing things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wcla-receives-funds-lahore-forts-conservation-promote-urban-tourism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WCLA receives funds for Lahore Fort\u2019s conservation to promote urban tourism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WCLA Sub-Engineer Hafiz Umar revealed that some time ago, while he was working on a rehabilitation project involving Moti Masjid and Maktab Khana, when he came upon faint traces of a mysterious tunnel during excavation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lastly and most interestingly, Archaeology experts noted that the fort itself had seven layers, meaning the structure was demolished and rebuilt a total of seven times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA) has announced the discovery of a 400-year old tunnel during a recent restoration effort at the Lahore Fort, according to a news source published on March 18. Read: WCLA proposes five-star hotel construction on Rim Market, Circular Road Lahore Reportedly, the edifice dates back to the era of Emperor Akbar but only now it has been revealed. The four centuries-old tunnel in Lahore Fort is reported to be holding well on its own. It is sufficiently ventilated with holes every 10 feet for proper airflow and spaces to hang the lamps for light. The said structure also has a 625-foot-long tunnel for the purpose of draining as well to function as a secret passage going by the niches for lamps. As per the experts working on the project, the rehabilitation of the tunnel and the drain would be a difficult task owing to the fact that the tunnel was closed for over 400 years \u2013 and unlike other countries of the world where modern machinery and equipment for used for the restoration purposes, the team prefer a more traditional way of doing things. Read: WCLA receives funds for Lahore Fort\u2019s conservation to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":75148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15167],"tags":[45583,45584,45582,45575],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-75142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tourism","tag-400-year-old-lahore-fort-tunnel","tag-lahore-fort-new-discoveries","tag-wcla-discoveries","tag-wcla-discovers-400-year-old-tunnel-at-lahore-fort","cat-15167-id"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WCLA discovers 400-year-old tunnel at Lahore Fort - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The edifice dates back to the era of Emperor Akbar but only now it has been revealed. The four centuries-old tunnel in Lahore Fort is reported to be...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/400-year-old-tunnel-at-lahore-fort.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WCLA discovers 400-year-old tunnel at Lahore Fort - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The edifice dates back to the era of Emperor Akbar but only now it has been revealed. The four centuries-old tunnel in Lahore Fort is reported to be...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/400-year-old-tunnel-at-lahore-fort.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; Pakistan Property News &amp; Latest Updates - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-28T05:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WCLA-FB.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"628\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"waleed shafi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ZameenProperty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ZameenProperty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"waleed shafi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"WCLA discovers 400-year-old tunnel at Lahore Fort - Zameen News","description":"The edifice dates back to the era of Emperor Akbar but only now it has been revealed. The four centuries-old tunnel in Lahore Fort is reported to be...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/400-year-old-tunnel-at-lahore-fort.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"WCLA discovers 400-year-old tunnel at Lahore Fort - Zameen News","og_description":"The edifice dates back to the era of Emperor Akbar but only now it has been revealed. The four centuries-old tunnel in Lahore Fort is reported to be...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/400-year-old-tunnel-at-lahore-fort.html","og_site_name":"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; Pakistan Property News &amp; Latest Updates - Zameen News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK","article_published_time":"2021-03-28T05:00:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":628,"url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WCLA-FB.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"waleed shafi","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@ZameenProperty","twitter_site":"@ZameenProperty","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"waleed shafi","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/400-year-old-tunnel-at-lahore-fort.html#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/400-year-old-tunnel-at-lahore-fort.html"},"author":{"name":"waleed shafi","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/cffebc3bb9633149b8a5b29bdfbe694b"},"headline":"WCLA discovers 400-year-old tunnel at Lahore Fort","datePublished":"2021-03-28T05:00:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/400-year-old-tunnel-at-lahore-fort.html"},"wordCount":268,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/400-year-old-tunnel-at-lahore-fort.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WCLA.jpg","keywords":["400 year old Lahore fort tunnel","Lahore fort new discoveries","WCLA discoveries","WCLA discovers 400-year-old tunnel at Lahore Fort"],"articleSection":["Tourism"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/400-year-old-tunnel-at-lahore-fort.html#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/400-year-old-tunnel-at-lahore-fort.html","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/400-year-old-tunnel-at-lahore-fort.html","name":"WCLA discovers 400-year-old tunnel at Lahore Fort - Zameen News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/400-year-old-tunnel-at-lahore-fort.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/400-year-old-tunnel-at-lahore-fort.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WCLA.jpg","datePublished":"2021-03-28T05:00:00+00:00","description":"The edifice dates back to the era of Emperor Akbar but only now it has been revealed. The four centuries-old tunnel in Lahore Fort is reported to be...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/400-year-old-tunnel-at-lahore-fort.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/400-year-old-tunnel-at-lahore-fort.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/400-year-old-tunnel-at-lahore-fort.html#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WCLA.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WCLA.jpg","width":1170,"height":400},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/400-year-old-tunnel-at-lahore-fort.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"WCLA discovers 400-year-old tunnel at Lahore Fort"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/","name":"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; Pakistan Property News &amp; Latest Updates - Zameen News","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Zameen.com","alternateName":"Zameen","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/upload\/2015\/09\/Zameen.com_-_Logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/upload\/2015\/09\/Zameen.com_-_Logo.png","width":600,"height":300,"caption":"Zameen.com"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK","https:\/\/x.com\/ZameenProperty","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zameenpk\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/cffebc3bb9633149b8a5b29bdfbe694b","name":"waleed shafi","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6c84b76c33c83ef69d322e588c749349522ba6a2ceec40f4a51b6dcf02cacbf7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6c84b76c33c83ef69d322e588c749349522ba6a2ceec40f4a51b6dcf02cacbf7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6c84b76c33c83ef69d322e588c749349522ba6a2ceec40f4a51b6dcf02cacbf7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"waleed shafi"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/zameen.com"],"url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/author\/waleedshafi"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75150,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75142\/revisions\/75150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75142"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=75142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}