Day 8 Revisit Part 2 - Bergama (Pergamon)

Pergamon Theater - steepest in the
world - with city of Bergama
in background

Day Eight Revisit Part 2 - Sunday June 13th - Bergama (Pergamon)

After lunch and the Carpet Association, we loaded up in the bus and made our way to the Bergama Acropolis, site of the ancient Greek city of Pergamon. This site had a great altar, which is now in a museum in Berlin, Germany. Pergamon was also the site of the second best library in the ancient Greek civilization. When the Ptolemies stopped exporting papyrus, partly because of competitors and partly because of shortages, the Pergamenes invented a new substance to use in codices, called pergaminus or pergamena (parchment) after the city.

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Dale's Pics for Day 8 - Pergamon: here