Archaeologists have found a 2,800-year-old royal tomb located near King Midas’s former home in Turkey, the country’s news agency, Anadolu Ajansı, reported. Scientists excavating a site in Gordion ...
In 2019, a metal detectorist from Birmingham, England, found buried treasure: a 500-year-old gold necklace inscribed with the initials of King Henry-the-Eighth and his first wife, Katherine of Aragon.
In the ancient city of Gordion in Turkey, archaeologists have unearthed an 8th-century B.C.E. burial chamber. But it’s no ordinary tomb. Rare relics and remains discovered inside, researchers said, ...
It was a real goldmine. Archaeologists have discovered a 2,500-year-old tomb in Turkey that is potentially connected to King Midas — and contains rare artifacts and cremated remains of a high-ranking ...
Archaeologists have discovered an eighth-century-B.C. royal tomb of a relative of King Midas in the ancient city of Gordion, southwest of Ankara, Turkey. The burial mound contained dozens of rare ...
In the first century B.C, King Antiochus I of Commagene built a sanctuary unlike any of his predecessors. His unexplored tomb at Nemrut Dağ may show us more about death and worship in ancient Turkey.
Today, the sport of hawking, or falconry, is open to commoners. But in Tudor times, it was a sport of kings – and Henry VIII spent many happy hours hunting with these magnificent birds on the grounds ...
The tomb features the oldest cremated remains found at the well-known archaeological site. Archaeologists have found a 2,800-year-old royal tomb located near King Midas’s former home in Turkey, the ...