The excavators first saw the body of a year-old male, who had died normally. He lay on a thick pile of blue and purple-dyed textiles, the colors of royalty in the ancient Near East. In the background, you will see what really got us excited: the largest Iron Age drinking-set ever found—some bronze vessels, including large vats, jugs, and drinking-bowls, that were used in the final farewell dinner outside the tomb.
The body was then lowered into the tomb, along with the remains of the food and drink, to sustain him for eternity or at least the last years. None of the drinking vessels, however, was of gold. Where then was the gold if this was the burial of Midas with the legendary golden touch? In fact, the bronze vessels, which included spectacular lion-headed and ram-headed buckets for serving the beverage, gleamed just like the precious metal, once the bronze corrosion was removed.
So, a wandering Greek traveler might have caught a glimpse of this when he or she concocted the legend. The real gold, as far as I was concerned, was what these vessels contained. And many of them still contained the remains of an ancient beverage, as seen in this close-up photograph of the residue, which was intensely yellow, just like gold.
It was the easiest excavation I was ever on. I just had to walk up two flights of stairs, and there were the residues in their original paper bags from when they were collected in and sent back to the museum.
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