Gordion

They included the oldest-known statue from the world's first city 9000 years ago at Catalhoyuk, the world's first peace treaty (made between Rameses II and the Hittite nation), and inlaid tables from Gordion (the city King Midas was said to have ruled, also famous for the Gordian Knot, which Alexander the Great cut).

Scott S. Smith: Western Turkey for Americans Scott S. Smith 2011

They included the oldest-known statue from the world's first city 9000 years ago at Catalhoyuk, the world's first peace treaty (made between Rameses II and the Hittite nation), and inlaid tables from Gordion (the city King Midas was said to have ruled, also famous for the Gordian Knot, which Alexander the Great cut).

Scott S. Smith: Western Turkey for Americans Scott S. Smith 2011

It's about the culture that makes death the means to cut the Gordion knot of our problems.

It's Suicide Prevention Week - Except for Old, Ill and Physically Disabled People Suzanne 2009

Grim deposits of butchered bones attest ritual slaughter by Galatians at Gordion in the 3rd century B.C.

Uncanny Archaeology 2009

His body was found surrounded by precious objects in a wooden tomb buried under the Great Tumulus at Gordion.

Archive 2006-07-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006

His body was found surrounded by precious objects in a wooden tomb buried under the Great Tumulus at Gordion.

Log of the Eclipse (10) (All Over Again) Walter Jon Williams 2006

The book is most vivid when McGovern is relating his own research experiences -- how he was able to determine that a grog of wine, beer, and mead was prepared for a royal funeral feast at Gordion in Turkey, or how he learned that jars in the tomb of the Egyptian king Scorpion I at Abydos contained resinated wine imported from the southern Levant.

Books: Roots of the Vine 2004

But when the Galatians settled permanently in central Anatolia, they did not simply shed their old ways and adopt those of the native peoples (presumably Hellenized Phrygians in the case of Gordion), as our discoveries of sacrificial ritual involving humans as well as animals have shown.

Celtic Sacrifice 2002

Ancient texts tell us that some of these immigrants settled at Gordion, the old Phrygian capital of King Midas, about 60 miles southwest of modern Ankara.

Celtic Sacrifice 2002

Grim deposits of butchered bones attest ritual slaughter by Galatians at Gordion.

Celtic Sacrifice 2002