Excavation in Pergamon, Turkey unearthed a “Mosaic House” from the Roman period. Archaeologists also discovered an intact, ...

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.

The first rulers of Pergamon, Philetairos (c.282-263) and his nephew Eumenes I (263-241), established a pattern of long and relatively successful reigns. The six Attalid rulers between 282 and 133 ...