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, ...

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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, ...

"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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BERLIN (AP) — Berlin's museums authority says one of the city's best-known cultural treasures, the 2nd century B.C. Pergamon Altar ...

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 ...

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 ...