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King Midas is the stuff of legend. Ancient Greek tales tell of a Phrygian ruler granted the power to turn everything he touched into gold. No monarch ever actually possessed a divine touch (or donkey ...
Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed a remarkably preserved royal tomb, Tumulus T-26, dating back to 750 B.C. at Gordion, ...
Phrygia is a civilization which lived and disappeared only in this region in the world. Phrygia developed as a “world state” in the 8th century B.C. and dominated Central Anatolia from Mediterranean ...
Gordion, the ancient capital of Phrygia, was said to be ruled the legendary King Midas, "the man with the golden touch". But who was he, and where did the stories about him come from?
The spectacular burial tumuli at Gordion (Turkey), the capital of ancient Phrygia and seat of the legendary (but historical) King Midas of the Golden Touch, are presented in this lecture by CU's ...
But Phrygia, a sector of land in what’s now Turkey, definitely was—and researchers have now uncovered evidence of a conflict that may have toppled the realm around the eighth century B.C.
W. M. Ramsay, Antiquities of Southern Phrygia and the Border Lands (III), The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Sep., 1888), pp. 263-283 ...
According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Phrygia is a civilization that existed in 800 B.C. and dominated central Anatolia from the Mediterranean ...
W. M. Ramsay, Antiquities of Southern Phrygia and the Border Lands (I), The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (Dec., 1887), pp. 344-368 ...
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