Visited Sardis several times when I was assigned to a Nato base in Izmir. Since I visited the temple site, my gut kept telling me there is a tomb filled with gold at the base of the mountain. Somehow it is related to Alexander.
Posted on 02/02/2010 9:15:34 PM PST by SunkenCiv
I guess Roman coins pretty well used Imperator portraits rather than symbolic pictures starting with Julius Caesar. Some did have dates in the form ‘in the xth year in the Consulship of a and b’, I believe.
Visited Sardis several times when I was assigned to a Nato base in Izmir. Since I visited the temple site, my gut kept telling me there is a tomb filled with gold at the base of the mountain. Somehow it is related to Alexander.
Ping!
That is interesting, really. It’s not talked about, but a great many of the headline-grabbing discoveries have been attributed by their discoverers to that kind of feeling, hunch, whatever term. I’m trying to remember off the top of my head if ‘Lex wandered through Sardis on the way to conquering the Persian Empire.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9907E4DE1539EF3ABC4C52DFB0668389639EDE
hahaha getting interesting. Located this a few minutes ago.
Gold coins found in 1922
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