The cutting of the Gordian Knot by Alexander became a metaphor for solving difficult problems by employing simple, drastic solutions.

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The temple may have been dedicated to a mother goddess worshipped by many cultures, including the Greeks and the Romans.

A hidden gem in the ancient Phrygian Valley has become an alternative tourist destination in western Turkey with the many historical places and “fairy chimneys” it boasts. Uclerkayasi village in ...

According to legend, the bombastic King Midas—a greedy but well-meaning ruler who was granted a wish that everything (yes, everything) he touched be turned to gold—once ruled the vast kingdom of ...

Four unfinished sarcophagus lids were recently found in the quarries at Docimium (Iscehisar) in central Phrygia. These quarries produced not only the well known pavonazzetto (marmor phrygium or ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. All the answers here are linked in some way. Once you’ve spotted the connection, any you didn’t know the first ...

Cart ruts in Turkey's Phrygia Valley are not signs of an alien civilisation, experts say Zeynel Cebeci/CC An alien civilisation did not drive huge all-terrain vehicles across Turkey's Phrygia Valley ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Centaurea phrygia agg. was studied in part of Central Europe (Czech Republic, Slovakia and Ukraine) to evaluate its karyological and ...

Khachaturian was just hitting his fiftieth birthday when he produced his music to the ballet Spartacus. It later became one of our favourite TV themes. The plot of the ballet had been around for some ...