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It’s Good to Be the King

  • June 27, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

The old saying that someone is “rich as Croesus” refers to super-wealthy King Croesus (KREE-sus) of Lydia, an ancient country in what is now Turkey. Among his many achievements, he paid for the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

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