Gold-Rich Mount Tmolus Western Anatolia Snow-Covered During Ice Age Later Exploited by Lydian Kings Heracleidae

In addition to northern Europe for instance which opened for settlement when the Ice Age ended circa 1500 b. c. were the mountains of western Anatolia such as Mt. Tmolus, 45 miles east of the Aegean Sea and rising to a 7,000 foot elevation, a gold rich region where its exploitation was begun circa 1300 b. c. by Lydian king Tmolus whose wife queen Omphale later married Hercules, where their progeny the Heracleidae reigned for over five hundred years until king Croesus and later king Midas came along.