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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: New Digs and Discoveries at Sardis in Turkey\nEvent
  Url: http://www.artsboston.org/event/detail/441655758/New_Digs_and_Discov
 eries_at_Sardis_in_Turkey\nEvent Date Begin: 2013-03-14\nEvent Date End: 2
 013-03-14\n\nNicholas D. Cahill\, Professor of Art History\, University of
  Wisconsin-Madison\; Director\, Archaeological Exploration of Sardis\, Har
 vard Art Museums and Cornell University\nIn the last two years\, archaeolo
 gical research by the Harvard-Cornell expedition at Sardis\, in western Tu
 rkey\, has produced a wealth of surprising discoveries. This lecture will 
 present these new ?ndings\, including excavation in the area believed to b
 e the palace of Croesus and of his predecessors\, the wealthiest kings of 
 the 7th and 6th centuries BC. New analyses of the world's ?rst coins\, min
 ted at Sardis\, force us to reconsider the origin of coinage\, and excavat
 ions in the Hellenistic and Roman temple of Artemis&mdash\;the fourth-larg
 est Ionic temple in the world&mdash\;reveal previously unsuspected phases 
 in the history of this fascinating building.\nA reception follows the lect
 ure.\nFree admission.\nFor more information\, please contact Robin Woodman
  at 617-495-3940 or robin_woodman@harvard.edu.\nComplimentary parking at B
 roadway Garage\, 7 Felton Street.\nThe Sardis Biennial Lecture is sponsore
 d by the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis to present new excavation ?n
 ds and current research. Work at Sardis is authorized by the Turkish Minis
 try of Culture and Tourism and has been sponsored by the Harvard Art Museu
 ms and Cornell University since 1958.
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SUMMARY:New Digs and Discoveries at Sardis in Turkey
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