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Location

  • Türkiye, Bergama
  • geo:39.132217,27.184008

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  • not yet provided

Classification

  • building
  • Visible

Library of Pergamon

data access 11760

The Pergamum Library was built about 170 BC.  According to Plutarch, it contained 200,000 volumes, second only to the world-renowned library of Alexandria in Egypt.

See:

  1. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/greece/Paganism/pergamumlibrary.html

Relevant museums

  • Pergamon Museum in Berlin
    Houses original-sized, reconstructed monumental buildings such as the Market Gate of Miletus.
    Germany, Berlin

Nearby sites

Use and reuse

Creators: Entry created by Randal Gilbert (2012-12-28) , last updated by Elżbieta (2016-02-20), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/11760
Data downloads: KML, RDF
Suggested citation: Gilbert, R. and Elżbieta, Library of Pergamon. https://vici.org/vici/11760, accessed 2026-11-08.