Our expert guide, trained Archeologist and Tour Lecturer Nick Jackson, one of few allowed to even perform tours within the museum at all, will take you on this extraordinary walk through ancient history. The star exhibition of our tour is the Pergamon Altar - a Greek construction with a magnificently detailed friezes that dates from the second century BC. The remains of this ancient building were shipped to Germany at the end of the nineteenth century at a time during which German archeologists were very active.

In an adjacent room towers the Market Gate from Miletus. It is the façade of a market from a Roman town in Asia Minor and is more than 16m high. The original date of construction is estimated to be about a century BC.

As your guide leads you through this gate, you enter what is, if not the most beautiful, definitely the most colorful of the major displays – the Ishtar Gate. This gate from Babylon dates from the sixth century BC and gives the Pergamon Altar strong competition for star of the show. The glazed tiles, mostly in blue, are in astonishingly good condition given the age. Large pieces from the Processional Way leading up to the Ishtar Gate decorate both sides of the passage.

The displays of Islamic art on the second floor are smaller but no less interesting. The façade of the Mshatta Palace in Jordan, eighth century BC, fills a room while another displays the inside of a seventeenth century paneled room of a rich merchant in Syria. Also of interest is a large map from India, showing the known world from a different perspective.

This general overview outlines some of the highlights of this 3 hour tour of Berlin's Pergamon Museum.

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