Tumulus of "Midas"

Tumus of Midas Tumulus MM - Midas Mound T25  is in fact a burial of his predecessor possibly Midas` father. The most recent date of the construction of the tomb chamber to ca. 740 BC indicates that Midas couldn' t buried there.

Sources:

1. Rodney S. Young, The Gordion Tomb - http://www.penn.museum/documents/publications/expedition/PDFs/1-1/The%20Gordion.pdf
2. Liebhart, Richard and Stephens, Lucas. "Tumulus MM." Expedition Magazine 57, no. 3 (December, 2015): -. Accessed December 13, 2023. https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/tumulus-mm/
3. Elizabeth Simpson, Reconstructing an Ancient Table: The 'Pagoda' Table from Tumulus MM at Gordion - https://www.academia.edu/24416143
4. http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/ilanlar/eskiilanlar/2015/07/20150715-4-1.pdf - exact location on the map
5. Machteld Johanna Mellink, A Hittite cemetery at Gordion, Philadelphia : University Museum, University of Pennsylvania 1956
6. C. Brian Rose, Gareth Darbyshire, The New Chronology of Iron Age Gordion, University of Pennsylvania Press 2012
7. Naomi Miller et Kurt Bluemel, Plants and mudbrick: preserving the Midas Tumulus at Gordion, Turkey, in: Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites Vol. 3 , Iss. 4,1999, pp. 225-257
8. Douglas J. Keenan, Radiocarbon dates from Iron Age Gordion are confounded, in: Ancient West and East  3, 2004, pp. 100-103