Listed 5 sub titles with search on: Archaeological sites for wider area of: "CENTRAL ASIA MINOR Region TURKEY" .
ANGYRA (Ancient city) TURKEY
The monument at Ancyra (now Angora), a marble wall, of which
the greater part is preserved. It belonged to the temple of Augustus at Ancyra,
and contained the Latin text of a Greek translation of the report drawn up by
that emperor himself on the actions of his reign (index rerum a se gestarum).
By the terms of his will this report, engraved in bronze, was set up in front
of his mausoleum at Rome, and copies were made of it for other temples of Augustus
in the provinces.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
GORDION (Ancient city) TURKEY
Fifty years ago, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (UPM) began excavations at the ancient Phrygian capital of Gordion in central Turkey. Within six years, the expedition had made one of the most spectacular archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. In the largest burial mound at the site, they located what has since been identified as the tomb of Gordion's most famous son, King Midas.
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