King Midas’ curse of turning everything he touched to gold might not have been as much of a fable as many theorize. C. Brian Rose, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania and ...

A shorter version of this story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... these include a beer likely served at King Midas’s funerary feast, and a 9,000-year ...

King Midas was the ruler of Phrygia. One day, Midas found a satyr - a creature with the body of a man and legs of a goat - in need of help. So Midas took the satyr home and looked after him.