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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Angela Merkel is a patient woman, as she proved during her 16 years in power dealing with political rogues like Silvio Berlusconi and Donald Trump. But even she has her limits. For her entire four ...

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, ...

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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 ...