Sardis occupied a strategic location and drew on the fertile agricultural land ... The city is dominated by the ancient acropolis, which rises 300 meters above the surrounding plain, “the strongest ...

Residents of Sardis, an ancient city in modern-day Turkey, spent decades rebuilding after a devastating earthquake struck one night in the year A.D. 17. To ward off demons and future disasters ...

By any measure, the ancient city of Sardis -- home of the fabled King Croesus, a name synonymous with gold and vast wealth, and the city where coinage was invented -- is an archaeological wonder.

will continue next season when new areas of the ancient city, untouched by previous explorers, are opened up. The excavations at Sardis are conducted by Cornell University and the Fogg Museum of ...

There seems to be a long tradition of ritual burials at Sardis. In the 1960s, for example, archaeologists found 30 of these "ritual dinners" or "puppy burials" at Sardis, which date back nearly ...