The Persians, under their king Cyrus the Great, conquered Lydia, and Croesus lost his kingdom and his wealth. Archaeologists Uncovered The City Of The First Coin Makers ...

No mythological story being complete without some sort of apt lesson being learned, Croesus came to understand the wisdom in this when his kingdom fell to Cyrus the Great and he became merely a ...

Herodotus viewed Cyrus’s defeat of Croesus as proof that wealth does not guarantee fulfillment. This text is an excerpt from the National Geographic special issue The Most Influential Figures of ...

The Median, Lydian, and Chaldean (Babylonian) empires around 600 BC in a map by William Robert Shepherd. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Three years later, in 547 BC, Cyrus besieged the ...

Victory of Cyrus over Lydia's Croesus at the Battle of Thymbra, 546 BC Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Walter Hutchinson, 1877 Cyrus lives. Founder of the Persian Empire, the biggest multiethnic empire ...

Episode 25 - Gold coin of Croesus. Gold coin of Croesus, King of Lydia (made around 550 BC) minted in Turkey "Get Rich Quick!" trumpets the promo on a buzzy financial website.

By Michael Anthony | Friday, Feb. 29, 2008 A lot has changed in opera houses since the first production of "The Fortunes of King Croesus" in 1711 in Hamburg's Theater-am-Gänsemarkt.