Statues devastated in WWII go on show in Berlin

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BERLIN – The ancient gods and fantastical creatures going on show in Berlin this week have made an unlikely comeback from near-destruction.
Unearthed in present-day Syria a century ago, the 3,000-year-old basalt statues and stone reliefs in the exhibition, "The Tell Halaf Adventure," shattered into thousands of pieces when their Berlin home was destroyed by bombing in 1943.
The rubble was rescued, then slumbered in the vaults of the capital's Pergamon Museum, then in East Berlin, for decades before a painstaking restoration project started in 2001.

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[HepKitty]

I went to the Pergamon Museum in 1996... hit the 3 museums there and the Dom, I love that area. I got a half-sincere invitation to Berlin later this year (and Lake Como, Italy, like wow), and if I go (big IF), I'll have to check this out. I will at least make sure my friends in DE know about it. Thanks for posting this!

 

[Unlucky Berman]

A lots of changed since 1996 on the "Museumsinsel" with the different museums there. So it's really worth another visit. Oh and in the area nerby, the Dom is still there but you won't see "Honnies Lampenladen" (former Palace of the Republic) on the other side of the street.