Word: croesuses
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...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 illustrates the kind of Jewish communities known to St. John and visited by St. Paul during his travels in Asia Minor...
Died. Juan Alberto March y Ordinas, 81. Spanish Croesus (estimated fortune: $300 million to $1 billion) who was often called "the last pirate of the Mediterranean" and who bankrolled Francisco Franco's climb to dictatorship; of injuries sustained two weeks ago when his Cadillac crashed head on into a banking competitor's car; in Madrid. Though he was born penniless on Majorca and remained illiterate until the age of 40, hawk-featured March (pronounced Mark) scaled from stevedore to smuggler to shipowner, won over the Spanish tobacco monopoly, sold to both sides during both World Wars, gained control...
...findings at the capitol of the great Lydian empire during the time of Croesus were made by a team of 30 scholars and students, aided by some 200 workmen. They worked at the vast site in western Turkey which during much of the 3,000 years of its history was the Paris of the ancient world. The directors of the expedition are George M. A. Hanfmann, professor of Fine Arts at Harvard, and A. Henry Detweiler of the Cornell faculty...
...every bit of earth. Out of the dirt came a half-inch gold bead, delicately adorned with tiny gold globules, an agate pendant on gold wire, and a tiny silver figurine of a hawk, From broken pottery in the grave, the archaeologists dated the burial to the time of Croesus' father, about...
Information on trade and industry in Lydian kingdom of Croesus, in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C., came from excavation of the Lydian bazaar in a great trench south of the modern highway. Heaps of ashes lying in a circle, moulds with bits of bronze, and actual bronze objects showed that large-scale bronze casting was carried...