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 ...

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Here we have devoted several articles to the use of animals in warfare—some more or less common (horses, elephants, dogs), others a bit less so (pigs, cats…). Camels would fall into the first group, ...

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From the Greeks and the Romans to the Ottoman empire, the history of Sardis, Turkey is one of persistent turnover. But its archaeological investigation has been remarkably consistent. Since 1958, the ...