The funeral pyre of Croesus, king of Lydia from 560 to 547 BC after his capture during Siege of Sardis in 546 BC when he was captured by the Persians. Cyrus the Great ordered him to be burned to death on a pyre, but Croesus escaped death, before the flames could envelope him, he was snatched up by Apollo and spirited away to the Hyperboreans.
'The Illustrated History of the World' Published by Ward; Lock & Co; 1890
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Location: Turkey
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