A city once home to the world’s richest king now looks more like a quarry. Gordion was the capital of ancient Phrygia, an Iron Age kingdom of Anatolia. Today, it is located at the site of modern ...

But Phrygia, a sector of land in what’s now Turkey, definitely was—and researchers have now uncovered evidence of a conflict that may have toppled the realm around the eighth century B.C.

Gordion, the ancient capital of Phrygia, was said to be ruled the legendary King Midas, "the man with the golden touch". But who was he, and where did the stories about him come from?