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The Archaeological Exploration of Sardis; The Search for Sardis, history of the archaeological excavations in Sardis, in the Harvard Magazine; Sardis, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Sardis Turkey, a comprehensive photographic tour of the site; The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites - Sardis; Livius.org: Sardes - pictures
The Sardis Synagogue is a former ancient Jewish synagogue, that was discovered in the modern-day town of Sardis, in the Manisa Province, in the Aegean Region of western Turkey. The former synagogue building is now an archaeological site and Jewish museum. The archaeological site is the largest Jewish site known from antiquity. [2]
Bin Tepe is an archaeological site on the southern shore of Marmara Lake in Manisa Province, Turkey. Consisting of over 100 tumuli, it served as a cemetery for the elites of nearby Sardis. [1] (p1121) [2] [3]
Sardis (modern Sart in the Manisa Province of Turkey) gained reputation and fame as one of the Seven Churches of Asia (or Seven Churches of the Apocalypse) when it was addressed by John in the Book of Revelation. Under pressure from curious archaeology enthusiasts, the Turkish government allowed for excavations to commence in 1910, during which ...
The only firm evidence for this early period comes from the archaeological excavations at Sardis. Although certain literary accounts purport the existence of two early Lydian dynasties, namely the house of Atys - after whose son Lydus the Lydians were supposedly named - and the Heraclids, who allegedly ruled for twenty-two generations before ...
The archaeological site of Sardis, today known as Sart in Turkey. The ruins of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus in Bodrum, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Apollo statue from Miletus in Istanbul Archaeology Museums. By 550 BCE, the Median Empire, which had existed for barely a hundred years, was suddenly torn apart by a Persian ...
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This is a list of sites where claims for the use of archaeoastronomy have been made, sorted by country.. The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the International Astronomical Union (IAU) jointly published a thematic study on heritage sites of astronomy and archaeoastronomy to be used as a guide to UNESCO in its evaluation of the cultural importance of archaeoastronomical ...