In attempting to reach the deeply buried archaic city of Sardis, the expedition teams have been digging through layers representing 22 centuries of civilization.

The ruins of Sardis, in what is now Turkey, have been a rich source of knowledge about classical antiquity from the 7th century B.C., when the city was the capital of Lydia, through later Greek ...

As the capital city of the Lydians, a native Iron Age Anatolian people, Sardis came to rule an empire that encompassed most of western Anatolia in the seventh and sixth centuries BC. Lydian Sardis was ...

A Harvard-Cornell expedition has uncovered an ancient synagogue at Sardis in Western Turkey, the site famed as the capital of king Croesus. The synagogue was built in the third century A.D. and ...

N 38 28 55 E 28 2 43 (Sardis) N 3834 48 E 28 00 25 (Bintepe) The Ancient City of Sardis. The ancient city of Sardis is located in Manisa Province in western Turkey, near the modern town of Sart. It ...