Midas Monument

Midas Monument (Yazılıkaya), a monument in the Yazılıkaya neighborhood of Han county, located 80 km from Eskişehir.

The monument is located in the interior of the neighborhood of Yazıklıkaya.

The monument, which is 17 meters high, was built in the 600s BC. It is the most magnificent of the monuments in the region, called the Frig Valley, and spread over a very wide geography.

Key facts

Type: tomb, archaeological site
Located in: Central Anatolia Region

Facts from Wikidata.

Coordinates: 39.200481, 30.713667Open in Google Maps

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Sources

The text on this page is translated from: Midas Anıtı (Yazılıkaya) (tr.wikipedia.org), as of 3 September 2025

Text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.