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Description: The ancient city at Kerkenes Dağı, located in central Turkey in the province of Yozgat, is the focus of the Kerkenes Project. The city was built and inhabited for a couple generations in the late 7th and first half of the 6th centuries BC. It met a final fiery destruction and was abandoned, most likely as a result of the conflict between Cyrus the Great of the Persian Empire and King Croesus of the Lydian Empire in the 540s BC, a conflict that led to the destruction of cities across Anatolia s