Ancient site· Polatlı, Ankara
Gordion
Gordion is a ancient site in Polatlı, Ankara; Phrygian capital where King Midas was buried in a wooden tomb chamber that survived 2,700 years intact.
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- 39.6501°N · 31.9786°E
Phrygian capital where King Midas was buried in a wooden tomb chamber that survived 2,700 years intact.
Editor's Note
Gordion was the capital of ancient Phrygia, located at modern Yassihuyuk near Polatli, about 70-80 km southwest of Ankara. Set at the confluence of the Sakarya and Porsuk rivers where the road between Lydia and Assyria/Babylonia crossed the Sangarius, it was occupied continuously from the Early Bronze Age to the 4th century CE. As the type site of Phrygian civilization, its well-preserved destruction level of around 800 BCE anchors the region's chronology, and its long tradition of burial tumuli records Iron Age elite practice.
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