City of Gold: Excavations at Ancient Sardis, Turkey

Nick Cahill

Dr. Cahill has worked in Greece and Turkey for nearly three decades and is currently Director of Harvard University's excavations at ancient Sardis, capital of the Lydian empire; the long term project is one of the largest in Turkey. He has also published significant works on Greek houses and town planning and is currently completing an innovative digital database on the Greek city of Olynthos. His areas of research and teaching include: Greek and Roman art and archaeology; Near Eastern and especially Anatolian art and archaeology; Greek city planning and social organization; Archaic Greece; Interrelations between Greece and the Near East; Achaemenid Persia; and Greek epigraphy.