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The Lydians were an Anatolian people living in Lydia, a region in western Anatolia, who spoke the distinctive Lydian language, an Indo-European language of the Anatolian group.
Lydian soldier (Old Persian cuneiform 𐎿𐎱𐎼𐎭, Sparda) of the Achaemenid army, Xerxes I tomb, c. 480 BC.
Lydia c. 50 AD, with the main settlements and Greek colonies.
Portrait of Croesus, last King of Lydia, Attic red-figure amphora, painted c. 500–490 BCE.
Early 6th century BC coin minted by a King of Lydia
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Lydia was an Indo-European Iron Age kingdom situated in western Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey. Later, it became an important province of the Achaemenid Empire and then the Roman Empire. Its capital w
Lydians
…The Lydians (Greek: Λυδοί; known as Sparda to the Achaemenids, Old Persian cuneiform 𐎿𐎱𐎼𐎭) were an Anatolian people living in Lydia, a region in western Anatolia, who spoke the distinctive Lydian language, an Indo-European language of the Anatolian group. Questions raised regarding…
The temple of Artemis in Sardis, capital of Lydia
Tripolis on the Meander is an ancient Lydian city in Turkey.
Büyük Menderes River, also known as the Maeander, is a river in Lydia.
Gyges tablet, British Museum