Excerpt from Guide to the Pergamon Museum: Translated for the Board of Directors of the Royal Museums of Berlin<br><br>Pergamon is situated in Asia Minor about 18 miles inland from the west coast. It lies opposite the Island of Lesbos, almost half way between Smyrna on the south, and Troy on the north. The citadel at Troy where Schliemann made his excavations, called also in the legend Pergamon, the burg or citadel, must not be con fused with this Pergamon which was the capital of the Attalid dynasty from the middle of the third century until 133 before Christ.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.