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, ...

Unearthed in the 19th century in what is now Turkey, the Altar of Pergamon has been on display in Berlin since 1901. This documentary traces the eventful history of this masterpiece of antiquity.

BERLIN (AFP) ― The Great Altar of Pergamon, a sculpted frieze dating from the 2nd century B.C. and one of Berlin’s top tourist attractions, will be closed for repair work from 2014, the museum said ...

The altar, decorated with a marble frieze, was built between 197 and 156 B.C. in the present-day Turkish town of Bergama. It's the centerpiece of Berlin's Pergamon Museum. The museum is being restored ...

"This catalogue is published with the exhibition Pergamon: The Telephos Frieze from the Great Altar, organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in ...

Few cultural experiences can match that moment when, for the first time, you approach the great Pergamon Altar in Berlin. Because it is famous, but not as famous as the Ara Pacis or the Elgin Marbles, ...

The estimated cost of renovation and expansion of Berlin’s Pergamon Museum has almost doubled to €477 million ($526 million) above the initial estimate of €261 million ($288 million) due to unforeseen ...

BERLIN (AP) -- Berlin's museums authority says one of the city's best-known cultural treasures, the 2nd-century B.C. Pergamon Altar, will be shut to visitors for up to five years from September for ...

BERLIN (AP) - Berlin’s museums authority says one of the city’s best-known cultural treasures, the 2nd-century B.C. Pergamon Altar, will be shut to visitors for up to five years from September for ...