It was all very Game of Thrones. The frieze of Pergamon’s Great Altar was described by Andreas Scholl as “one of the finest works in the history of world art” (Credit: Alamy) ...

Closed for renovations until 2019, Berlin’s Pergamon Museum has sent the Met its greatest marbles and effigies from the centuries after Alexander the Great, resulting in this ep ...

Dr Helwing is sad that she will have retired long before the Pergamon reopens, but she is cheered by the work that will keep her busy in the interim. All the movable objects of the collection she ...

The original construction of the Pergamon Museum took 20 years from 1910 to 1930 (and that was interrupted by the first world war). Its reconstruction could take almost 40 years, perhaps even more.