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Multi-periodSite Name: Gordion Alternative Name: Yassihöyük
Country: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 64.78 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Ankara  Nearest Village: Polatli
Latitude: 39.649860N  Longitude: 31.977660E
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4Short walk on a footpath
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Gordion
Gordion submitted by davidmorgan : Sited on the plains of the Anatolian plateau. (Vote or comment on this photo)
First a Hittite city of the middle bronze age from around 1600 BCE, then the capital of the Phrygian Kingdom dating to the 8th century BCE, now a mound of remains. At confluence of the Sakarya (Sangarios) and Porsuk River. The city boasts a monumental gateway, the remains of a palace and several megarons.

Note: Archaeologists uncover massive fortifications in ancient city of King Midas, see the comment on this page for more
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Gordion
Gordion submitted by davidmorgan : The main gateway. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Gordion
Gordion submitted by davidmorgan : View across to the burial tumuli from inside the walls of Gordion. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Archaeologists Uncover Massive Fortifications in Ancient City of King Midas by davidmorgan on Sunday, 30 November 2014
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A team of archaeologists have unearthed new evidence of massive, monumental defensive works at the Citadel Mound site of ancient Gordion in Turkey. Excavations have also revealed ancient industrial activity dating back to the 11th century BCE.

Located about 70–80 km southwest of Ankara in western Turkey, Gordion, the ancient city best known as the residence of the legendary King Midas, has been the focus of on-and-off excavations since it was discovered in 1893 by Alfred Körte, who initiated exploratory excavations at the site in 1900. Now, Brian Rose of the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues have uncovered massive defensive walls, part of a road, and industrial work spaces dated back to some of the earliest periods of the site. During the early first millennium B.C., Gordion was the power center of the Phrygian kingdom, ruling much of Asia Minor. It was under King Midas and later rulers that the kingdom reached its apogee.

"Gordion’s historical significance derives from its very long and complex sequence of occupation, with seven successive settlements spanning a period of nearly 4500 years," says Rose. "What we discovered was a large glacis or stepped terrace wall over 2.5 m in height, dating to the Early Phrygian period, that supported a substantial fortification wall nearly 3 m. wide. This had proven that the western side of the mound was fortified, and that those fortifications had already been established in the Early Phrygian period (9th c. B.C.), neither of which had been known previously."*

Other massive fortifications, particularly on the eastern side of the Citadel Mound, were uncovered through previous expeditions. But in the last two seasons, beginning in 2013 under Rose's renewed excavations at the south side of the Citadel Mound, solid new evidence has emerged for additional defensive works.

Most significantly, the excavations have also now revealed fortifications spanning the entire time period of Phrygian rule in the region. "We were fortunate this year in uncovering new fortifications dating to three different periods: Early Phrygian (9th c. BC), Middle Phrygian (8th c. BC) and Late Phrygian (6th c. BC).......it is already clear that the scale of the citadel fortifications throughout the entire Phrygian period was much more ambitious than formerly suspected."*

Additionally, Rose's team excavated a sondage trench through what has been designated the Terrace Building, a structure discovered during previous excavations and thought to be a building where industrial activities occurred. They uncovered a large industrial kiln surrounded by ceramic remains that helped to date the feature to the Early Iron Age, or the 11th century BCE. Above and east of the kiln they excavated an Early Iron Age house structure, which contained objects related to textile manufacture, such as spindle whorls and loom weights, and a bell-shaped pit that contained fragments of Early Iron Age handmade wares and animal bones. "The evidence yielded by the sondage demonstrates that there was considerable industrial activity in this area before the Terrace Building was constructed, beginning in the 11th c. B.C.," wrote Rose in a recent newsletter report.*

Concurrent with the excavations and conservation efforts at Gordion, a team under the direction of Stefan Giese and Christian Huebner of GGH in Freiburg, Germany, has been conducting a geophysical survey of the 'Outer Town' using magnetometry and electric resistivity techniques. The Outer Town is a second residential area with detected remains just west of the Lower Town, another residential area that extends below the Citadel Mound. What they found has been no less revelatory than the Citadel Mound discoveries. They detected signs that the Outer Town was "bordered by a ditch with a defensive wall on its interior"*, which the team believes surrounded the entire Outer Town. The findings include other features that suggest a monumental fort. These preliminary finds are similar to those p

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