The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave., at 82nd Street. 212-535-7710 or metmuseum.org. Today through July 17. Schedule: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sunday through ...

This site rises high above the Bakirçay Plain in Turkey’s Aegean region. The acropolis of Pergamon was the capital of the Hellenistic Attalid dynasty, a major centre of learning in the ancient world.

The glory of the Pergamon Museum on Berlin’s legendary Museum Island is the eponymous Great Altar excavated by the German engineer Carl Humann between 1878 and 1886. With the permission of the Ottoman ...

A couple of ancient giants are extending their American debut by two years. The 12-foot-tall Athena and “Fragmentary Colossal Head of a Youth,” both on view in Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of ...

Pergamon was founded in the 3rd century B.C. Its location in the Aegean Region, the heart of the Antique World, and at the crossroads between Europe and the Middle East destined it to be an important ...

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When Alexander the Great conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire and hauled off the treasures of its royal capitals, he unleashed perhaps the greatest economic stimulus package of all time. The city ...

Closed for renovations until 2019, Berlin’s Pergamon Museum has sent the Met its greatest marbles and effigies from the centuries after Alexander the Great, resulting in this epic study of how Greek ...