The ancient city of Sardis and Lydian Tumuli of Bin Tepe in Türkiye’s western Manisa province have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, the Turkish culture and tourism minister said on ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a Lydian palace dating back to the 8th century B.C. in the ancient city of Sardis, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in western Türkiye. The site, in Manisa ...

Archaeology isn’t exactly the most glamorous job out there. You can spend years digging around in the dust and dirt only to come up empty-handed. Sometimes, though, you hit the jackpot with a find ...

These findings, which include the skeletal remains of two soldiers, may offer new insights into the military campaigns that shaped the region’s ancient history. The excavation team, led by Nick Cahill ...

For the past two summers, the lazy countryside around the minuscule village of Sart in Turkey has been the scene of frenetic excavations. Under the field directorship of George M. A. Hanfmann, ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

One of the greatest cultural strains that influenced Western civilization flowed through Lydia in Asia Minor, for many centuries an industrial and financial center. Many historians believe that the ...

Ancient literary sources indicate that Daskyleion was under the control of the Lydian kingdom from the late seventh century to the mid sixth century BC, before it was made a regional Achaemenid ...