For the last two years, the annual Diggings tour has included a visit to Gordion, an archaeological site about 100 km west of Ankara, beside the modern Turkish village of Yassihoyuk. This is the legendary city of King Midas and an important historical site in Turkey. The Korte brothers identified the site of Gordion...
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History
THE MIDAS TOUCH
The First Marathon
The tangled story of the wars between the Greeks and the Persians is too complex to be described here. Let us start, however, with the Athenian raid on Sardis, when the defenders were taken by surprise and the city sacked and burned. Infuriated by this, the Persian king ordered his servants to remind him...
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