The tomb was discovered at the archeological site of Gordion, the capital of the Phrygian kingdom, which controlled much of Asia Minor during the first millennium BCE, Gordion Excavation Director C.

This suggests that the Arslan Kaya monument was likely created at the height of the Lydian Empire, when it dominated the region alongside the eastern Turkish Phrygian Empire. This was a time when ...

After the end of the Roman Empire, however, the symbolism of the Phrygian cap becomes unclear. Roman art features another type of cap, a conical hat called the pileus, which was given to Roman ...

when it dominated the region alongside the eastern Turkish Phrygian Empire. This was a time when Lydia, the originator of gold and silver coins, also revered the mother goddess. The findings ...