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MuseumsSite Name: Pergamon Museum Alternative Name: Vorderasiatisches Museum
Country: Germany
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Land: Brandenburg, Berlin Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Berlin  Nearest Village: Museums Insel
Latitude: 52.520843N  Longitude: 13.395789E
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Pergamon Museum
Pergamon Museum submitted by AlexHunger : Pergamon Museum Vorderasiatisches Museum Very extensive Museum of Middle Eastern archaeological artefacts, including Babylon gate. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Museum in Brandenburg, Berlin

Museum of Middle Eastern archaeological artefacts, from Stone age to Middle Ages. Includes amazing, and truly monumental, reconstructions of ancient buildings, including the Pergamon Altar, the Market Gate of Miletus and the Ishtar Gate with the Processional Way of Babylon.

Previously, this museum was housed in the west wing of Charlottenburg Palace.

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Re: Streetview: Pergamum Museum by KaiHofmann on Thursday, 09 March 2017
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Harald Platta shows a Google virtual view of the Altes Museum, I just saw that there is also a Google virtual visit possible in the Pergamon Museum:
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Uruk rises again in digital 3D by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 29 May 2013
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Uruk, in modern-day Iraq, is one of the first cities in the world and was populated almost without interruption for over 5,000 years – from the 4th millennium BC to the 1st millennium AD.

The city is famous for the invention of cuneiform writing at the end of the 4th millennium, in the “late Uruk period”. During this creative flourishing the city already covered an area of 2.5 square kilometres and many distinctive architectural features were invented and developed.
View of the reconstructed “Stone-Cone building” with surrounding walls. © artefacts-berlin.de; Scientific material: German Archaeological Institute (DAI)

View of the reconstructed “Stone-Cone building” with surrounding walls. © artefacts-berlin.de; Scientific material: German Archaeological Institute (DAI)
Recreating the architecture of innovation

Today, little is known with certainty about the purpose and function of this early representative architecture, among which the so-called “Stone-Cone Building” is perhaps one of the most puzzling.

The construction technique utilised on this building is without parallel, and is found neither in Uruk itself nor anywhere else in the world. While all other buildings in the region use mud brick as the primary building material, its walls are made up of an artificial cement-like material that was applied, layer after layer.

Thousands of carefully formed and perforated slabs of ceramic were placed in-between each layer in order to provide the basis for the outer plastering, while, within the plastering, hundreds of thousands of coloured stone cones were set into the walls in geometric patterns to make up the mosaic decoration of the building.

Understanding the construction was an important step in understanding the building and architectural make-up of the structure and this is where German based conceptual design agency Artefacts Berlin came in. The team specialise in the visualisation of archaeological and scientific content, creating informative graphics and animations for exhibitions and research projects.
Based on excavated evidence

Together with Prof. Dr. Eichmann, who has been studying the “Stone-Cone Building” for many years, the Artefacts team, who are archaeologists themselves carefully reconstructed the building process on the basis of the evidence.

The results were visualised in a compelling animation that captured the building’s entire construction process, from its complex foundation design to more interpretive reflections regarding its inner installations. Each step of the building process is shown in detail in order to give an informative overview of the construction of this outstanding building.

There was also a further benefit to utilising this 3D architectural rendering process- the digital model allowed for calculations to be made on the total amount of building material used in this large-scale building project.
Infographic showing the total amount and type of building material that was used in the construction of the “Stone-Cone Building”. © artefacts-berlin.de

Infographic showing the total amount and type of building material that was used in the construction of the “Stone-Cone Building”. © artefacts-berlin.de
A monumental exhibition

The digital model of this and other structures is now showcased at the exciting exhibition Uruk: 5000 Years of the Megacity that marks the 100th anniversary of the first excavations at Uruk

The Staatliche Museen’s Vorderasiatisches Museum (Museum of the Ancient Near East) and the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim collaborated with the German Archaeological Institute’s Orient Department and the German Oriental Society to create a comprehensive display, featuring objects from the Vorderasiatisches Museum’s own collection and the Uruk-Warka collection of the German Archaeological Institute, which is maintained by the Univ

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Exhibition: Uruk – 5000 Years of the Megacity by davidmorgan on Monday, 14 January 2013
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Exactly one hundred years ago, finds from an excavation in the south of present-day Iraq sent shockwaves around the academic world as archaeologists working at the site of the Mesopotamian city of Uruk, (modern day Warka in Iraq), brought to light the first known urban culture.

For thousands of years, southern Mesopotamia was home to hunters, fishers and farmers exploiting the fertile soil and abundant wildlife, but by 3200 B.C., the largest settlement in southern Mesopotamia, if not the world, was Uruk: a true city dominated by monumental buildings of mudbrick decorated with painted clay cones embedded in the walls.

Large-scale sculpture appears here for the first time, together with metal casting using the lost-wax process. Pictographs were marked on clay tablets to record the management of goods and the allocation of workers’ rations. These pictographs are the earliest formal writings, and are the precursors of later cuneiform writing.

Until around 3000 B.C., objects inspired by Mesopotamia were found in central Iran to the Egyptian Nile Delta however, this culture underwent a collapse and became introspective for the next few centuries.

Yet even after this Uruk expanded and during the following Early Dynastic period (2900–2350 B.C.), when city-states dominated Mesopotamia, the city rulers gradually grew in importance and expressed power through consumption of luxury goods from across the ancient world, acquired either by trade or conquest.

Uruk was surrounded by a massive wall, which according to tradition was built on the orders of Gilgamesh. Although he may have been an actual king of Uruk around 2700 B.C., Gilgamesh becomes the legendary hero of later stories including the famous Epic.

Although Uruk had been one of the prominent cities of Early Dynastic Sumer, it was ultimately annexed into the Akkadian Empire and went into decline, partly due to agricultural failures as well as the north taking pre-eminence. Later, in the Neo-Sumerian period, Uruk enjoyed revival as a major economic and cultural centre under the sovereignty of Ur. Several buildings were restored as part of an ambitious programme, which included a new temple for Inanna.

Following the collapse of Ur (2000 BC), Uruk went into a steep decline until about 850 BC when the Neo-Assyrian Empire annexed it as a provincial capital. Uruk, now known as Orchoë to the Greeks, continued to thrive under the Seleucid Empire (312 BC–63 BC), but with a shift in the Euphrates River by 300 AD, the city was mostly abandoned and by c 700 AD it was completely deserted.

After the German Oriental Society was granted the necessary license from the Ottoman Empire, teams commenced excavation work in Uruk in November 1912. The turbulent political situation and ensuing military conflict soon put a stop to their endeavour, setting a trend that has continued to affect work at the site to this day.

More than forty excavation campaigns have taken place so far in all. Even though less than five percent of the huge area that once made up the city has been explored, the current findings provide us with a wealth of details on the ancient Near-Eastern city.

It was customary at the time to divide up finds from a single site and remove them from the country of their origin. This led to scores of finds making their way to Germany, where they were not only preserved at the Museum of the Ancient Near East in the Pergamonmuseum, but also at the DAI’s Uruk-Warka’s Collection, which is housed at the University of Heidelberg.

Thanks to the unique cooperation of the four institutions involved in today’s project, objects from long-separated collections will now go on display to the public under one roof for the first time.

These artefacts will be joined by numerous valuable loans from major European museums such as the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the British Museum in London and the Ashmolean Museum of Art a

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Re: Streetview: Pergamum Museum by Sunny100 on Tuesday, 23 November 2010
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Looks like an interesting place this Pergamum Museum. I like the streetview, holger. Thanks for putting it on here.
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Re: Streetview: Pergamum Museum by Martin_L on Tuesday, 23 November 2010
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Ok, Pergamum is the latin name, but this museums' common name is Pergamon-Museum.
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Streetview: Pergamum Museum by holger_rix on Tuesday, 23 November 2010
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