Photographs of Pergamum

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Pergamum originates from the reign of Alexander the Great and was expanded by Eumenes II. He established a library here to rival that of Alexandria in Eygpt. He also built a temple dedicated to the Emperor Trajan. Schools of mathematics, philosophy, astronomy and medicine were established here. It also contained the temple of Zeus (now in the Pergamum Meseum in Berlin). The colonnaded Via Sacra led down the hill to Asclepeium.