Laodicea was one of the wealthiest cities of the Roman Empire and one of the Seven Churches of Asia addressed in the Book of Revelation. Located in western Asia Minor (modern-day Türkiye), the city ...

Once a very important road in Asia Minor ran north along the Aegean coast from Ephesus into Smyrna and then to Pergamum. Another road that began at Pergamum ran southeast to Thyatira, farther south to ...