Penn Museum researcher helps empower Turkish women
By Katherine Unger Baillie
Gordian Museum Turkey
Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann
For the past several years, Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann, right, a research scholar at the Penn Museum, has been helping women in a Turkish village set up a women’s cooperative market.
The Turkish archaeological site of Gordion is best known for the “Midas Tomb”—a dome of earth built to house the remains of an ancient notable who, until recently, was believed to be Phyrgian King Midas, famed for his wealth. (More recent dating suggests the tomb, constructed around 750 B.C.E., was actually dedicated to a predecessor of Midas.)
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