Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . M 855 vented here, and it was the entrepot of the dyedwoolen manufactures. This was also the placewhere the metal electrum was procured, and herethe Spartans sent, in the sixth century b, c, to pur-chase gold for gilding the face of the Apollo atAmyclte. This gold was probably furnished fromthe auriferous sand of the Pactolus, a bro
Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . M 855 vented here, and it was the entrepot of the dyedwoolen manufactures. This was also the placewhere the metal electrum was procured, and herethe Spartans sent, in the sixth century b, c, to pur-chase gold for gilding the face of the Apollo atAmyclte. This gold was probably furnished fromthe auriferous sand of the Pactolus, a brook whichran through the forum by the side of the great tem-ple of Cybele. This city changed hands several timesduring the contests after the death of Alexander. Itwas taken and sacked by the army of Antiochus theGreat in 214 In the time of the Emperor Ti-berius, Sardis was desolated by an earthquake, and apestilence followed. It was taken and nearly de-stroyed by Tamerlane, 1400. It is now a small village, but contains a large khanfor the accommodation of travelers, it being on theroad for the caravans coming out of Persia to Smyrnawith silk. The ruins of the ancient city are to the southwardof the town, chief among which are those of themassive t
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