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. 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.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.