{"id":69929,"date":"2014-02-19T10:01:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T06:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=69929"},"modified":"2014-02-19T10:01:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T06:01:45","slug":"berlins-pergamon-altar-faces-5-year-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=69929","title":{"rendered":"Berlin&#8217;s Pergamon Altar Faces 5-Year Closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin&#8217;s museums authority says one of the city&#8217;s best-known cultural treasures, the 2nd century B.C. Pergamon Altar, will be shut to visitors for up to five years from September for restoration work on the building that houses it.<\/p>\n<p>The altar, decorated with a marble frieze, was built between 197 and 156 B.C. in the present-day Turkish town of Bergama. It&#8217;s the centerpiece of Berlin&#8217;s Pergamon Museum.<\/p>\n<p>The authority that runs Berlin&#8217;s public museums said Tuesday the central hall that contains the altar will close Sept. 29, and likely won&#8217;t reopen until 2019, though it plans to set up a temporary exhibition nearby with original material from the altar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin&#8217;s museums authority says one of the city&#8217;s best-known cultural treasures, the 2nd century B.C&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":69928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}