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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

It was a dangerous year for the inhabitants of Sardis. In A.D. 17 an earthquake, which the ancient historian Pliny called “the greatest earthquake in human memory,” destroyed the great city, once the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sardis was the capital of the Lydians, a powerful Iron Age civilization (8th-6th centuries BCE) known for its wealth and early coinage production. . The city had a unique urban structure with ...