Note: The Pergamon Museum will be closed beginning in October 2023 for extensive renovations. It will reopen in spring 2027, according to the museum’s website. The Pergamon Museum, located on ...

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.

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 ...

"This belongs to Iraq," reads the poster held by Iraqi student Zeidoun Alkinani at the Babylonian Ishtar Gate in the Pergamon Museum of Berlin. Excavated and acquired by German archaeologists in what ...

On an area of 30 meters and a height of 15 meters, the history of the Romans is displayed at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Germany. They are displayed in a panoramic way for the audience and visitors ...

The Ishtar Gate comes from Babylon in modern-day Iraq. Would it have survived the 1991 war on Iraq? (Shuttercock) The Aleppo room comes from a Christian home in the northern Syrian city; built in ...

Berlin’s Pergamon Museum is losing its star attraction for five years. Sunday is the last day to see the Pergamon Altar in Berlin's most famous museum. Almost 1.5 million people visited the Pergamon ...

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A friend from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization once told me that his organization’s famous World Heritage List generally excludes museums. I suppose this may have ...