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Gordium (Yassihüyük) (2)
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The Tomb of Midas. Photo Marco Prins. The 'tomb of Midas' near Gordium. It has a diameter of 300 meter and is 47 meter high. It contained one of the oldest alphabetic inscriptions outside Phoenicia (c.740 BCE).
The Tomb of Midas. Photo Marco Prins. The Tomb of Midas.
The Tomb of Midas. Photo Marco Prins. The Tomb of Midas.
The chamber of the Tomb of Midas. Photo Marco Prins. The chamber of the Tomb of Midas, exterior.
The chamber of the Tomb of Midas. Photo Marco Prins. The chamber of the Tomb of Midas, interior. It measures about 6 x 5 meters. Here, a man's corpse was found, and even the contents of his last diner could be reconstructed. On chronological grounds, the possibility that the dead man was indeed king Midas, can be excluded. He may have been the famous king's father or grandfather.
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