Word: phrygians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Child's Toys. For six years, archaeologists of the University of Pennsylvania have been digging at the site of ancient Gordium, capital of the Phrygians, who ruled much of Asia Minor up to the yth century B.C. Dr. Rodney S. Young, leader of the dig, tells how an earthen mound near Gordium was probed with an oil-well pilot drill. Off to one side, presumably to foil grave robbers not equipped with modern scientific gadgets, was the tomb of a high-born Phrygian child who died about 2,600 years ago. The remains of five baby teeth were sifted...
...light. About 60 ft. long and 22 ft. wide, it looked a good deal like an early Christian church, with a central nave, two side aisles and a rounded apse at one end. In the apse the diggers found the marble head, delicately carved, of a god in a Phrygian cap. Then they knew that the ruin was a temple of Mithras, built about A.D. 150, where armored Roman legionnaires worshiped, particularly during the dying years of the Roman empire, when the Mithras cult was most popular...