“Babylon” Exhibit - Pergamon Museum
In cooperation with the Louvre, Paris and British Museum, London, the Pergamon Museum, Berlin will present a major exhibition from June 26 through October 5, 2008 demonstrating the close link between the intellectual history of Europe and the Near East over a period of several millennia. In the first part of the exhibition, selected topics with numerous archeological objects from Babylonia will document the roots of European civilization that reach all the way back to the second millennium B.C. The second part of the exhibition is devoted to the reception of Babylonian culture in European intellectual history from the end of antiquity to the twenty-first century.
