Ancient pergam – the archeology of the Bible

The strategic location of Permane, along with both land and maritime trade routes, contributed to its prosperity. Hajj pilgrims coming from the Mediterranean region arrived in the city to engage in the city of trade or to visit the city of the famous Ascelin, who arrived at the city of medical treatment.

Along with the Turkish coastal belt as well as the air -paced mountains and proudly – near the sea – near the sea – the over -ages of the Indian Ocean sit on the ruins of ancient Pergemon. Although the majority of its excellent monuments are now sitting in the Berlin’s Permanent Museum, there are many remnants of acne to realize the former greatness of the city that once again fought against Alexandria, Offices and Antioxy in culture and trade, and in the field of medicine today.

Against this image of enlightening learning is the “throne of the devil”, as described by the prophet of Patemos (Revelation 2: 12-13), which some scholars have given the great altar of Permanem, one of the most wonderful living structure in the world of Greco Roman.¹

The modern visitors are approaching the steep and wrapped road, a few miles away from the modern Turkish city of Bergama. Upon reaching the ruins, the commanding panoramic theory of a thousand feet high of Pergamam makes it easy to understand how the city once dominated the entire region.

It was a proud city in its time, and it was the reason for it. Its monuments and buildings were built in the best henstatic style of high quality white marble, and its library competed against Alexandria’s famous library in Egypt. In the middle of the second century, it is known as a center of ancient medicine in the entire Mediterranean world, the main reason for the presence of renowned Roman physician gallen (C. 129-200 AD), born in ancient Pergemon.

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After the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, during the years of the division of the Greek Empire, Permanent Famous was divided into his generals, in which ordinary Lesmachos resettle the settlement of Permane and his wealth. Due to its strategic position, along with the land and maritime trade routes, and because of the wealth of the wealth of the landing kings who ruled the kingdom, the city enjoyed centuries of prosperity, which continued when it was calmly in Rome, with Rome, and Roman, with Roman, and Roman, with Roman, Roman, and Roman. And he was related to rose.

The strategic location of Permane, along with both land and maritime trade routes, contributed to its prosperity. Hajj pilgrims coming from the Mediterranean region arrived in the city to engage in the city of trade or to visit the city of the famous Ascelin, who arrived at the city of medical treatment.

Section, the oldest and most beautiful part of the Permanent, is also the highest. Permagan’s acroopolis rises on the ruins of the city, which drops the slopes in the valley below. The most dramatic structure of acryopolis was the same as the scholars of Zeus, whose largest foundations are all on the southern slopes of the site. It is believed that the altar is affiliated with the temple, known today as the great altar of Pergemon, was transferred to Berlin by German archaeologists in the 19th century, who were clearly allowed to remove the Ottoman Empire from the Ottoman Empire.

Walking north from the temple of Zeus and at the great Altar of the Pergamin, a man encountered the remains of the Temple of Ethnic, which was built at the end of the fourth century or the beginning of the third century BC, and is dedicated to the city’s patron goddess. Beyond this, there is an excellent structure in the northwest that was the city’s famous library. Although both Pepires and Performance could be estimated at about 200,000 documents (Sinika estimates that about 40,000 volumes were produced in Alexandria’s large library), it was certainly one of the largest reservoir of written material in the ancient world and famous in the Mediterranean. It also contained one of the most unusual gifts of marriage: it is said that Mark Antony presented the Cleopatra with a large part of the Pergam Library collection, in which a part of Alexandria’s reservoir that was occupied by Julius Caesar’s city.

The great altar of Pergamam is considered one of the greatest monuments surviving ancient monuments. Now is located in the Permanem Museum in Berlin, Germany, the altar is the “throne of the devil” in the view of many scholars, which the Prophet Jan cited in the book of revelations. (Revelation 2: 12-13)

The most safest sacred structure on the ancient peripolis of the ancient Permagim is the temple of the Trejan, built during the era of Emperor Hudreen (117-138 AD) and is dedicated to his honorable predecessor. The presence of its commanding on the surrounding structures and ruins, the presence of its commanding is proof of the strength of the royal sect.

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Trejan Temple, or Trage. The tremendous structure confirms the strength of the royal sect in the city. After becoming the first emperor of the Augustus Roman Empire, Pragam was given the option of becoming the first imperial clutter center in the east.

It is difficult to imagine, looking at its high height, it was in fact a small sacred structure in the definitive part of the Temple of Acopoly. The dramatic background of the bottom valley and the grave size and greatness of the building against the sea and the sky is really amazing.

Every ancient Greek city, which was worth it, was proud of the theater. A place for both entertainment and urban gatherings, theater Greco was a central place of public life in the Roman world. The architecture of almost sustained theater of Permamin not only confirms the importance of the city but also provides that one of the most amazing and dizzy things in the ancient world. The theater is the fastest place of its kind, leaving the sharp slopes of acroopolis towards the sea. 10,000 visitors have to navigate 80 rows of horizontal seating carefully, lest they get a deadly mess on stage more than 120 vertical feet. Like many ancient Greek theaters, the theater in Pergam is also a voice miraculous: an actor (or tourist) can also be heard on the stage. Caveaa (Seating structure)

During the second century CE, the reputation of Pergamin as a center of healing and medical science, eclipse its reputation for anything. During this period, his most famous citizen was the physician, Galin, whose work and research was largely responsible for providing the foundation of the foundation of modern Western medicine. In ancient Pergemon, Skypelin was the most famous in the ancient world, and this ancient version of the Medical Spa attracted pilgrims coming from the Mediterranean region, which came to achieve the strength to recover its thermal water and medical treatment for various diseases and wounded.

Given the fact that the city represented both parts and its architecture, representing the symbol of Helstantic culture, traditions and religion, it is probably not surprising that the early Christians considered it unhealthy for Christian beliefs. In the book revelation, John conveyed a message from seven Christians to the Asia Minor, all of which are located in modern Turkey. The party of Pergaman was one of them, and the message for Christ’s loyalty praises them that they follow their beliefs while living in a place where “Satan lives.” It is believed that Antipas, a Christian bishop from Pergemon, was martyred here at the end of the first century, during the time when many scholars believe that the book consisted of revelation. The implementation of their bishop certainly did not like the city of its Christian people, and the Bible reference to the city is a reflection of the common tension between Christian and infidel communities at the end of the first century.

In control of Vertago, the author stands at the middle of the three -level theater, which is the most famous theater in the Grecoo Roman world.

As part of the Roman Empire, the fall of Pergamin overall the empire. Like the rest of the region, it eventually came under Byzantine and then under the Ottoman rule. By the end of the 19th century, excavation began in ancient place, and today it attracts people from all over the world. As climbing the height of acne, modern visitors can easily realize the echo of the magnificent past of Perman, which can still be heard in the midst of the beauty of his marble ruins.

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1. See Adela Yarbro Collins, “The throne of the devil,” RepetitiveMay/June 2006.

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Sarah Yumins With special emphasis on ancient science and religion, an archaeologist is a specialist in the royal era of the Roman Empire. Currently, he is pursuing his doctoral at the University of California, California, Sarah holds an MA in Archeology from Sheffield University in England and MA in the history of art from the University of Southern California. He has worked archaeological field work in Israel, Italy, Turkey, France, and England and has worked on several television and film production, recently as an interviewed expert. God’s story with Morgan Freeman. He is a Provincial Fellow at the University of Southern California and is a recipient of the Huntington Library in Los Angeles and the Museum, along with a research fellow from the American Research Institute of Turkey (ARIT). Its current research also includes the effects of ancient Roman medical technology and sects as well as the effects of pandemic diseases on Roman society. When she is covered in dirt, she is usually happy, revolving in archaeological places somewhere in the Mediterranean region.

This daily article in Bible history was originally published on July 16, 2013.

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