In the ancient city of Gordion in Turkey, archaeologists have unearthed an 8th-century B.C.E. tomb with possible ties to King ...

I first learned about the Gordian knot as a child. Whoever unties it would conquer Asia. Along came Alexander the Great. He took out his sword and sliced through it—cutting ...

Who was Gordias, the legendary father of rich King Midas? Legend connects him to the Gordian knot, famously cut by Alexander ...

Researchers in Turkey have uncovered a 2,800-year-old royal tomb thought to be associated with the legendary King Midas. Turkish Culture Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy announced the discovery of the tomb ...

Turkey's minister of culture and tourism announced the discovery of a new tomb in an eighth-century-B.C. city that was the homeland of King Midas.

Cutting the Gordian Knot: AI, Data, ... Greek legend tells how this ends: a knot so intricate no one could unravel it, countless failed attempts, and then—Alexander the Great.

“It really is a Gordian Knot,” said Yan, referring to the legend of Alexander The Great and the impossible-to-untie knot that he instead cut. “The solution is then who wields the sword ...

For the past several months since chief executive officer and presumed Intel savior Pat Gelsinger was ousted from those jobs by Intel’s board of directors, there have been all kinds of rumors about ...

Like Alexander the Great, Mr. Trump is cutting the Gordian knot. According to legend, in Phrygia (in what is now Turkey) an oxcart was held together by a complex knot. No one could untie it. An oracle ...

Merchan might have done well to remember that Alexander the Great’s solution to the original Gordian knot was not to keep tangling it, but cut through it—with a sword, no less.

The sentencing of former (and future) President Donald J. Trump in a Manhattan courtroom on Friday was the culmination of a titanic legal saga that tested, and arguably rent, the legal and political ...

Merchan might have done well to remember that Alexander the Great’s solution to the original Gordian knot was not to keep tangling it, but cut through it—with a sword, no less. Merchan should have ...