Letters from Sardis

The metropolis of Asia Minor, the Paris of the ancient world, Sardis was the place where legendary Croesus ruled, where coinage was invented, and economic history revolutionised. The letters published in this book provide an informal account of fourteen years of work by a Harvard-Cornell team to retrieve evidence of the greatness of Lydian culture, as well as of the Prehistoric, Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine civilizations that preceded and followed the Lydian kingdom...