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The Archaeology of Phrygian Gordion, Royal City of Midas. Proceedings of a conference held at the Penn Museum. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum. Rose, C. Brian and Gareth Darbyshire, eds. 2011. The New Chronology of Iron Age Gordion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum. Rose, C. Brian and Gareth Darbyshire, eds. 2016.
The king buried in Tumulus MM. Rodney Young named the largest burial mound at the site Tumulus MM—for “Midas Mound,” after the famous Phrygian king Midas, who ruled at Gordion during the second half of the eighth century B.C. Young eventually came to believe that the tomb’s occupant was not Midas but rather his father, although in either case the wooden finds from the burial can be ...
The exhibits include the Phrygian and other archaeological items, especially those of King Midas. There is also a chronological exhibition of later artifacts including Hellenistic and Roman Empire items and also a coinage section. There are many tumuli around Gordion. They are actually the tombs of Phrygian aristocrats.
They acquired control over Central Anatolia and made Gordion their capital city. The finds from the royal tumulus at Gordion form the majority of this section. The tumulus measured 300 m (980 ft) in diameter and 50 m (160 ft) in height. The reproduction of the tomb of King Midas, found in the ancient tumulus, is also displayed here.
A collection ancient tombs in Korea, a Viking-age ring fortress in Denmark, an ancient Thai town and a 2,000-year-old earthworks in Ohio are among contenders for this year’s UNESCO World ...
In Meletemata: Studies in Aegean Archaeology Presented to Malcolm H. Wiener. Edited by P. Betancourt, et al., 781-85. Liège and Austin: Université de Liège and University of Texas, 1999. Simpson, E. and K. Spirydowicz. Gordion Wooden Furniture: The Study, Conservation and Reconstruction of the Furniture and Wooden Objects from Gordion, 1981 ...
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In 2012 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and the Austrian Archaeological Institute. His publications have focused on the archaeological sites of Troy and Gordion, and on the political and artistic relationship between Rome and the provinces.