Sorting Out A Menu Fit For Midas; Tomb's Probers Identify Drink, Food at Funeral From: The Washington Post | Date: December 23, 1999| Author: Guy Gugliotta | Copyright 1999 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

He was said to have a "golden touch," and King Midas's subjects spared no expense when he died, entombing him inside an opulent wooden bedroom filled with inlaid furniture and submerged beneath a 174-foot mound of impermeable clay, gravel and logs.

To keep him company--or give him sustenance--in the great beyond, they brought in the leftovers from his funeral banquet--a savory stew and a fermented brew of wine, barley beer and honey mead.

This all occurred about 700 B.C. in ancie...

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