Phrygia
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Cybele, the earth goddess of Phrygian mythology (Ephesus Museum, Selçuk, Turkey). She became known to the Greeks as Artemis, virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon, and to the Romans as Diana.
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Hot springs at Pamukkale (ancient Hierapolis), southwestern Turkey. First established during the 2nd century BC and once the capital of Phrygia, Hierapolis lies along the Coruh River, a tributary of the Menderes. The hot, calcite-laden springs, used for their medicinal properties today as well as in ancient times, have deposited masses of white travertine and given the city its modern name, Pamukkale (‘cotton palace’ in Turkish). The city is now a UNESCO world heritage site.
Former kingdom of western Asia covering the Anatolian plateau. It was inhabited in ancient times by an Indo-European people and achieved great prosperity in the 8th century BC under a line of kings bearing in turn the names Gordius and Midas, but then fell under Lydian rule. From Phrygia the cult of the Earth goddess Cybele was introduced into Greece and Rome.
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