I was in a hilltop theatre built for 10,000 people, one that had one of the most striking backdrops I had ever seen. The sun, sliding low toward the earth in the west, lit up a mosaic of olive groves ...

Protohistoric and Roman Archeology Specialist Prof. Dr. Wolf Rudiger Teegen (L) Department of Protohistory and Roman Archeology at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and archeologists make ...

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, ...

Private seating areas with names engraved on them have been found at an 1,800-year-old amphitheater in the ancient city of Pergamon in Turkey’s western Izmir province. Excavations have been ongoing at ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave., at 82nd Street. 212-535-7710 or metmuseum.org. Today through July 17. Schedule: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sunday through ...

The awe-inspiring altar of ancient Pergamon, excavated and reassembled by German archaeologists starting in the mid-19th century, provides a window onto a vanished city, in the middle of modern Berlin ...

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 ...

IZMIR, 25 November (BelTA - Anadolu Agensy). - Examination of skeletons unearthed in the ancient city of Pergamon in western Turkey shows that locals living 2,000 years ago had a diet based on ...