Pergamon Museum

Thu May 17, 2018 2:51 pm
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A spectacular museum full of looted artifacts from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Asia-Minor, and Persia, the first museum you visit in Berlin should be Pergamon.

Ishtar Gate of Babylon

Ishar Gate was built by King Nebuchadnezzar II of glazed bricks with his own words inscribed in cuneiform.

Ishtar Gate of Babylon
Alte Nationalgalerie

Alte Nationalgalerie is next door to Pergamonmuseum

Reconstructed Market Gate of Miletus

Market Gate of Miletus was actually built by Romans in western Asia-Minor.

Pergamon (unrelated to Miletus) for which the mueum was named, was a major cultural center in the Hellenistic World, which was what became of the Greek-dominated remains of Alexander The Great’s Empire as paritioned after his passing.

From Mongol-occupied Persia

An example of Islamic Art thought to originate from Persia which was occupied by Mongols in the 13th Century.

Aleppo Zimmer

Aleppo Room comes from a residential structure in Syria.