There are many legends about King Midas. The most famous is the story that everything he touched turned to gold, and that he had donkey ears. Those stories are purely imaginary. But there was a real Midas. He was a king of the ancient land of Phrygia (now in Turkey). He died around 696 BCE, at the age of 65.
Midas’s tomb was found in 1957. For 30 years, Midas’s skull lay ignored in a cardboard box. Then the medical artist Richard Neave of England, with a
