The altar of Zeus at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Germany, photo by Zander and Labisch, from L’illustrazione Italiana, Year XXIX, No 3, January 19, 1902.

Of course, if two more years isn’t enough time then I am gratified to report that the Pergamon Athena Parthenos resides permanently in Berlin, at the Antikensammlung. A visit to the city, coupled with ...

ART REVIEW the metropolitan museum of art photos Athena Parthenos is 13 feet high and is a smaller copy of her statue that stood in Athens. Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient ...

On a terrace to the south of and below the Sanctuary of Athena was Pergamon’s grandest building, the Great Altar, built under King Eumenes II.

Before the altar was closed to the public in 2014, nearly approximately 1.3 million visitors came to the Pergamon Museum annually. That number has dipped since then, with approximately 800,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...