The windswept ruins of Pergamum, which surround the modern town of Bergama, are among the most spectacular in Turkey. Pergamum was one of the world’s major powers, though it had only a relatively ...

IZMIR, TURKEY—The Anadolu Agency reports that researchers from the German Archaeological Institute and Berlin Technical University found names engraved on seats in five areas of the 1,800-year-old ...

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 ...

Maps of the 2,300-year-old city of Pergamon in Turkey’s Izmir province are now accessible digitally. Archaeological work is being carried out in the ancient city by the German Archaeological Institute ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In the summer of 1878 a German road engineer named Carl Humann armed ...

Bursa and Cumalikizik, considered the birthplace of the Ottoman Empire, and the multi-layered cultural landscape of Izmir’s Pergamon have been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List. The decision was ...

I was in a hilltop theatre built for 10,000 people, one that had one of the most striking backdrops I had ever seen. The sun, sliding low toward the earth in the west, lit up a mosaic of olive groves ...