Word: croesuses
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Leaders of the joint expedition emphasized the importance of the discovery, the most important one this year. Archeologists pinpointed the city, the former capital of the fabled Croesus, only last fall...
...efforts this year will be directed at the exploration of the archaic city of the Lydians of the time of Croesus, excavation of an early Christian residence that has yielded bronzes of considerable interest and of two Roman structures...
...game, 2) his background scarcely schooled him for hula hooping and beanie balancing. For Nelson Rockefeller is the grandson of the greatest tycoon of them all, the second son of the nation's most generous and most retiring philanthropist. He is a man who is a Croesus in his own right ($100 million, give or take a million), a man who in 30 years has counseled three Presidents, changed the living standards of large sections of South America, carved out a place in commerce, culture and international diplomacy. Adding the political touch to all this explains why Nelson Rockefeller...
...greatest cultural strains that influenced Western civilization flowed through Lydia in Asia Minor, for many centuries an industrial and financial center. Many historians believe that the Etruscans of Italy, from whom the early Romans got much of their culture, were Lydian colonists. The last King of Lydia, Croesus, was legendary for his vast wealth, and his capital, Sardis, was a splendid city that served after his death as the western capital of the Persian Empire...
...given a sum of money to the gymnasium, which was probably a kind of school. This suggested that Building B might be the gymnasium mentioned. If so, the diggers were hot on the trail. According to ancient writers, the Sardis gymnasium was within sight of the royal palace of Croesus...