This site rises high above the Bakirçay Plain in Turkey’s Aegean region. The acropolis of Pergamon was the capital of the Hellenistic Attalid dynasty, a major centre of learning in the ancient world.

In Athens, the remains of the Stoa of Eumenes II can still be seen on the slopes of the Acropolis while a reconstruction of the Stoa of Attalus II dominates the Athenian Agora. Once Pergamon ...