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

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


Alte Nationalgalerie is next door to Pergamonmuseum

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.

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

Aleppo Room comes from a residential structure in Syria.