Croesus ruled over the kingdom of Lydia, the western half of what is now Turkey, from 560 to 546 B.C. Already a wealthy man thanks to his control over the precious metal deposits in the Pactolus ...

The kingdom of Lydia is thought to have come into existence around 1180 B.C.E., following the splintering of the Hittites. In the 6 th century B.C.E., the Lydians were defeated while participating in ...

Saite Egypt / Alexander Sch|tze -- The Neo-Babylonian Empire / Michael Jursa -- The Kingdom of Lydia / Annick Payne -- The Southern Levant and Northern Arabia in the Iron Age / Juan Manuel Tebes -- ...

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS—Live Science reports that five Roman-style longswords were discovered in a 1,500-year-old house located […] ...