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In the ancient city of Gordion in Turkey, archaeologists have unearthed an 8th-century B.C.E. tomb with possible ties to King ...

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Archaeologists have discovered an 8th-century tomb in Turkey that is potentially connected to King Midas — and contains rare ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered a 2,800-year-old royal tomb which researchers believe belonged to one of King Midas’s relatives.

In 1957, archaeologists discovered a royal tomb (also known as a tumulus) at the site of Gordion, Phrygia’s ancient capital located about 60 miles southwest of Ankara, Turkey.

A 2,500-year-old royal tomb has been discovered by archeologists at the site of an ancient city in Turkey. After four months of excavations, Penn Museum and Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University ...

Then there is an intact royal tomb discovered in northern Egypt in the late 1930s, containing the untouched mummies of three pharaohs from the 11th, 10th and 9th centuries BC.

Sacred royal tombs. Yale University Egyptologist Nicholas Brown, who also was not involved, noted parallels with the discovery of a royal tomb of Thutmose II earlier this year.