Turkey's minister of culture and tourism announced the discovery of a new tomb in an eighth-century-B.C. city that was the homeland of King Midas.

Archaeologists in Turkey just uncovered an ancient Phrygian tomb that might belong to a relative of the legendary King Midas, ...

They realized that it was an announcement of King Hartapu ... may even have a sense of Midas’s physical appearance from the remains of the person buried there. A reconstruction of the face ...

In a reconstruction of the temple ... such as those that tradition attributes to the Phrygian king Midas, in Gordium, and the Lydian king Alyattes, in Sardis. Dating between the eighth and ...

What do archaeology and written records reveal about the origin of the Phrygians, one of the most prominent nations in Iron Age Anatolia?

The exhibition is called the Golden Age of King Midas. It's filled with never-before-seen artifacts and it seeks to separate the truth from the myth of the legendary King famously remembered for ...

King Midas turns his roses into gold in a 19th century engraving. The Midas story is a classic Greek myth of how a man’s greed almost ruined his life Next he tried to eat a piece of bread and ...

In modern lingo, the Midas touch implies a prodigious gift: Its possessor profits from whatever he undertakes. It is named for a legendary king who prayed to Dionysus, the god of wine ...

A MYSTERIOUS message carved into a statue forged by King Midas has been read for the first time in more than two millennia. A historian managed to decipher it during a visit to what today is ...

Dr. Patrick McGovern greets guests after the "Feast Fit for King Midas" dinner at the University Museum. The meal was the first prepared based on chemical evidence found in the tomb of the legendary ...

He's woken when a king - King Midas - and his soldiers come riding up. Midas has a special longing to see Dionysus and Silenus agrees to take him to see the god in exchange for the loan of a horse.