ITHACA, New York, Oct. 28 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * The long, deep dig: Collaboration excavates the ancient city of Sardis * From the Greeks and the Romans to the Ottoman empire, the history of Sardis, Turkey, is one of persistent turnover. But its archaeological investigation has been remarkably consistent. Since 1958, the ancient city has been continuously excavated by one of the longest-running institutional projects, the Harvard-Cornell Exploration of Ancient more PR