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W.M. Ramsay first named the site as Midas in the late 19th century and indicated that it was surrounded by a defence wall. The excavations on the plateau yielded remains of a only one settlement phase dated to the 5th-4th BC - Late Phrygian Period. This time Anatolia was under the Persian Empire domination. Setllement was suddenly aboundoned at the late 4th century BC,
Sources:
- Mark Henderson Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, And the Tyranny of Asia. A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion, University of California Press, Ltd. London 2006, pp. 70 f.
- Emilie Haspels: I am the Last of the Travelers. Midas City Excavation and Surveys in the Highlands of Phrygia, eds. von Dietrich Berndt. Arkeoloji ve Sanat, II ed. Istanbul 2012.
- Piotr Bienkowski, Alan Millard, Dictionary of the Ancient Near East, p. 198.
- Caroline H.E. Haspels, The Highlands of Phrygia: Sites and Monuments, 1971.
- William Mitchell Ramsay, "The Rock Necropoleis of Phrygia", Journal of Hellenic Studies 3, 1882, pp. 1-32.
- Yazilikaya - Midas Sehri-http://www.tayproject.org/TAYages.fm$Retrieve?CagNo=10280&html=ages_detail_e.html&layout=web