The discovery was made at the Gordion archaeological site which is located around 60 miles southwest of Ankara ...

King Midas and the Golden Touch, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, retold and illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt (Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, $12.95, ages 5 and up). Midas, who looks like a slightly slimmer ...

Professor C. Brian Rose of the Penn Museum, the Excavation Director at Gordion, Türkiye where the tomb was uncovered, spoke ...

In the ancient city of Gordion in Turkey, archaeologists have unearthed an 8th-century B.C.E. tomb with possible ties to King ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a royal tomb linked to King Midas' family in Turkey, revealing bronze vessels and insights ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed a remarkably preserved royal tomb, Tumulus T-26, dating back to 750 B.C. at Gordion, ...

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 ...