The already-ancient kingdom was perhaps a landscape of memory for ... Greek world and the great civilizations of central Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and the Near East, Sardis had strong ties to both ...

Cyrus responded by pursuing him to Sardis. The defeat of Croesus at Thymbra ... one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. His empire controlled much of the Near East up to Egypt. In October 539 ...

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.

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 ...

we prepared powder from 132 ancient Near Eastern samples, either by dissecting the inner ear region of the petrous bone using a sandblaster (Renfert), or by drilling using a Dremel tool and single ...