Roman amphitheater, Pergamon, Turkey Inscribed seat block, Pergamon, Turkey(DAI Pergamon Excavation 2021/I. Yeneroglu) While excavating the Roman amphitheater in western Anatolia’s ancient city of ...

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 ...

One of the best-preserved cities of the ancient world, Pergamon sits near modern-day Turkey's west coast next to the city known as Bergama. Pergamon was a prosperous, cosmopolitan city that flourished ...

Jack, K. H., and Bolton, W., (unpublished results, 1957). Hume-Rothery, W., The Structures of Alloys of Iron, 143 (Pergamon Press, 1966). Cruickshank, D. W. J ...

The German Archaeological Institute has just released detailed updated digital maps of the ancient city of Pergamon (also known as Pergamum). For the first time since 1973, the new cartography ...

From Alexandria’s papyrus empire to Pergamon’s parchment-powered rival, the Hellenistic contest for knowledge reshaped how the world preserved books. Credit: Greek Reporter archive When we think of ...

Archaeologists in Turkey recently discovered an exceptionally well-preserved bronze cauldron dating back around 1,400 years. It was uncovered in its original position in a complex known as the “Mosaic ...

The Library Company reading room on Juniper Street in Philadelphia c. 1935, one of the group’s main locations from 1880 to 1935. The Library Company of Philadelphia Founding father Benjamin Franklin ...

“History is experimental politics; this is the best or rather the only good politics” (19th century French conservative thinker Joseph de Maistre) What future can we see in the light of history – ...

Excavation in Pergamon, Turkey unearthed a “Mosaic House” from the Roman period. Archaeologists also discovered an intact, sealed roof tile, indicating that a king once owned the building. Several ...