Word: lydians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Among the findings unearthed by the are several large jars incized with representing an entirely unknown system, remnants from a Lydian business district, and tons of crumbled columns from a large colonaded court...
Several hundred yards to the west of these discoveries, the excavators found of Lydian buildings which per in 547 B.C., when Cyrus, King of , captured Sardis...