Without question, this dude stopped by here on the way to conquering the Persians and charging all the way to India! But there are not really any material remains to show for his visit. Some of the remains are from eras well before the Hellenistic era, but the coins are from that later period. In a world where the barter system was still in place, coins only really come to the fore in the Hellenistic and Roman period.
The Phrygian language is interesting. It’s alphabet reflects a combination of Greek and unique characters, as this little inscription makes clear…
And where would a museum in Turkey be without at least one statue of Aslan, the Turkish word for lion.
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