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Before Croesus, 2,600-Year-Old Sardis Stepped Terraces Shaped Lydia’s Royal Capital
Sardis stepped terraces are giving archaeologists a new way to read one of the ancient world’s most powerful capitals: not only as a city of wealth, but as a city deliberately engineered into authority. A new study by Güzin Eren, published in Arkeoloji Dergisi, examines a group of 2,600-year-old stepped terraces built during the reign…