Very interesting. The Western Anatolia cities suffered turmoil until the arrival of the Roman empire in 2nd century BC (the usual low profile wars, Persian inva

Very interesting. The Western Anatolia cities suffered turmoil until the arrival of the Roman empire in 2nd century BC (the usual low profile wars, Persian invasion, then Alexander the great...). Additionally there's not a site in this area which wasn't shaken to the ground by one or several earthquakes in the same period. It's amazing to find surviving structures, and luckily archaeologists are still excavating and re-erecting many amazing sites.