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A 2,500-Year-Old Statue of a Long-Haired Young Man Emerges from Beneath a Roman Street at Sardis
Roman builders at Sardis once laid a monumental marble statue face down beneath a colonnaded street. Centuries later, that act of reuse helped preserve the young man’s face, long hair and clothing in remarkable detail. The statue was uncovered during excavations at the ancient city in western Türkiye’s Manisa Province. Türkiye’s Ministry of Culture and…
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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…
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One of the Largest Ancient Synagogues Discovered at Sardis Reveals Jewish Life in Roman Anatolia
A vast synagogue unearthed in the ancient city of Sardis is offering one of the clearest and most striking insights into Jewish life in the Roman world. Built into a monumental public complex and covered with nearly 1,400 square meters of mosaics, the structure stands among the largest known synagogues of antiquity—and one of the…