🏛️ Sardis and the Lydian Tumuli of Bin Tepe

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Sardis or Sardes was an ancient city best known as the capital of the Lydian Empire. After the fall of the Lydian Empire, it became the capital of the Persian satrapy of Lydia and later a major center of Hellenistic and Byzantine culture. Now an active archaeological site, it is located in modern day Turkey, in Manisa Province, near the town of Sart. Sardis was also mentioned as the campsite of Brutus and Cassius in William Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar (1599).

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Sardis and the Lydian Tumuli of Bin Tepe is a cultural World Heritage site in Türkiye, in Asia. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Sardis and the Lydian Tumuli of Bin Tepe was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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