The secret of a museum storage-room in Bergama was a small Roman glass bottle which still contained its own dark, compact flakes, sticking to the inside, preserved by a seal deposited some two ...

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 ...

Almost 25 years ago, in October 1999, Gerhard Schröder, Germany’s then chancellor, attended a ceremony to mark the renovation of Berlin’s Old National Gallery, one of five world-class museums that ...

Researchers in Türkiye found chemical traces of human fecal matter and herbs in a second-century CE Roman glass vessel, ...

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 ...

German police briefly detained Kurdish artist and journalist Zehra Doğan last Saturday following a protest she staged inside the Pergamon Museum. “We were detained by the German police in Berlin for ...

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, ...

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 ...

A costly and lengthy renovation project in Berlin's most visited museum has turned into another construction nightmare. The monumental Pergamon Altar will move into a temporary exhibition in the ...