Roman amphitheater, Pergamon, Turkey Inscribed seat block, Pergamon, Turkey(DAI Pergamon Excavation 2021/I. Yeneroglu) While excavating the Roman amphitheater in western Anatolia’s ancient city of ...

IZMIR, TURKEY—The Anadolu Agency reports that researchers from the German Archaeological Institute and Berlin Technical University found names engraved on seats in five areas of the 1,800-year-old ...

Bursa and Cumalikizik, considered the birthplace of the Ottoman Empire, and the multi-layered cultural landscape of Izmir’s Pergamon have been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List. The decision was ...

Bursa and Cumalikizik as ‘The Birthplace of the Ottoman Empire’, and Izmir’s Pergamon and its ‘multi-layered cultural landscape’ have been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List at the recent 38th Wo ...

The ancient Greek city of Pergamon was a major center of culture and learning of the Hellenistic world, standing out for its ...

The stone seats are inscribed with Latin names in Greek letters. Photo by Mehmet Emin Menguarslan / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images About 1,800 years ago, when Lucius attended a gladiatorial spectacle ...

This article provides the first detailed overview of the medieval glass vessels from Pergamon, an important site in western Asia Minor. During the excavations inside the fortified acropolis, numerous ...

What is 14 years? A mere flash, compared with the antiquity of a 7,000-year-old female figurine from Syria, or a processional hallway from Babylon, or the façade of an ancient Roman market. But in the ...

One of Berlin's top tourist attractions, the Pergamon Museum and its world-class collection of antiquities, will close this month for a top-to-bottom restoration not due to be completed before 2037.

Closed for renovations until 2019, Berlin’s Pergamon Museum has sent the Met its greatest marbles and effigies from the centuries after Alexander the Great, resulting in this epic study of how Greek ...

Berlin’s Pergamon Museum has rejected calls to return the giant altar to its place of origin. Visitors look at the frescos and the Pergamon altar in the altar room at Pergamon Museum in Berlin, ...

The famous Pergamon Altar has been inaccessible to the public since 2014. A wing of the restored museum will reopen in 2027.