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Yazılı (also: Yazılıkaya, lit. 'inscribed rock'), Phrygian Yazılıkaya, or Midas Kenti (Midas city) is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Alpu, Eskişehir Province, Turkey. [1] Its population is 45 (2022). [2] It is located about 27 km south of Seyitgazi, 66 km south of Eskişehir, and 51 km north of Afyonkarahisar.
Yazılıkaya, Eskişehir, also called Midas City, is a village with Phrygian ruins. Yazılıkaya; Yazılıkaya. Shown within Turkey. Location: ... History This was a ...
The Midas Monument, a Phrygian rock-cut tomb dedicated to Midas (700 BC).. There are many, and often contradictory, legends about the most ancient King Midas. In one, Midas was king of Pessinus, a city of Phrygia, who as a child was adopted by King Gordias and Cybele, the goddess whose consort he was, and who (by some accounts) was the goddess-mother of Midas himself. [5]
The mythic Midas of Thrace, accompanied by a band of his people, traveled to Asia Minor to wash away the taint of his unwelcome "golden touch" in the river Pactolus. Leaving the gold in the river's sands, Midas found himself in Phrygia, where he was adopted by the childless king Gordias and taken under the protection of Cybele.
Horst Eringhaus thought it was a Phrygian double idol, like that described by Dietrich Berndt at Midas Kenti. [2] The posture and costume of the figure show strong similarities to the Niğde Stele (on display in the Niğde Archaeological Museum), which also depicts Tarhunzas. For this reason, the relief is dated to the late 8th or early 7th ...
A team of international scientists recently revealed the stunning tattoo work of the Chancay culture—a pre-Columbian people group from the coast of Peru that thrived from 900 to 1500 A.D ...
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos are mourning the loss of their beloved dog, Chewie, who died on Tuesday, Feb. 4, at the age of 17.. The couple opened up Wednesday's episode of Live with Kelly and ...
The Midas Mound Tumulus at Gordion, dated c. 740 BC. According to the classical historians Strabo, [35] Eusebius and Julius Africanus, the king of Phrygia during this time was another Midas. This historical Midas is believed to be the same person named as Mita in Assyrian texts from the period and identified as king of the Mushki.