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...marble avenue where ancient shoppers thronged, a Roman bath with colorful mosaics, and the first glimpse of the fabled golden riches of the capital of Croesus are among important discoveries made by a Harvard-Cornell team this summer in its fourth expedition at Sardis, Turkey...
...soon as he succeeded to his father's throne, the fledgling King whose "close-cropped hair was tawny as a lion's" threw off the yoke of the luxury-loving Medes, but tolerantly let Astyages live out his life in a pleasant alcoholic haze. When fabulously rich Croesus of Lydia rashly decided to march against the upstart, he did so on the ambiguous advice of an oracle: "If you cross the river Halys, you will destroy a great empire." The empire Croesus destroyed was his own. but he too found himself quite content to serve his new master...
Alexander the Great conquered the ancient city, once the capital of Croesus, in the fourth century B.C. His successors completed the walls and fortifications...
Sardis was a vital area in the ancient world. The fame and grandeur of the city in ancient times was enormous. During the seventh and sixth centuries B.C., the Lydian empire grew, and, under King Croesus, reached its peak around 550. The source of the legendary wealth of Lydia was the enormous gold deposits (the present expedition hopes to discover their exact location). In 540, the Persians conquered the city and Croesus, the "millionaire-king" whose memory is still honored in the phrase "rich as Croesus", died...
...Early Iron Age to archaic (Sixth Century B.C.). The room, apparently a potter's shop, was a remnant of the fabled city of Sardis, the fied the vases and sherds as Lydian, from uncovered some of the town walls of Sardis dating from Lydian days. A bit of Croesus' metropolis was once more brought to light...