Most likely, they are trying to cover up the damage done to the Altar by dampness, decay, thieves and madmen under the pretext of renewal.
While this was being done, posters explaining why the Altar was located in Berlin were hung on the door of the Museum/Prison.
However, while making these statements, it was openly admitted that the Bergama artifacts were taken to Germany as a result of smuggling and suspicion.
Ausgrabung und Erforschung 1878 bis heute: Excavations and Researches from 1878 to the present is written on one of the posters in large letters.
In addition, the posters are decorated with many Bergama pictures, but there is no Bergama name in the titles.
However, C. Human, the head of the network that stole the Bergama artifacts, came to Bergama in 1864, smuggled the pieces and statues of the Zeus Altar to Germany, although it was forbidden until 1878, and how he did them is beautifully written in the Excavation Book.
Moreover, years later, even the deaf sultan knows that W. Radt, the head of the delegation who excavated in Bergama on behalf of the Germans in the 1990s, approved this smuggling.
It is a historical fact that after most of the altar was abducted, a law was enacted by the German Philip Anton Dethier, who was brought to the Imperial Directorate of the Ottoman Museum by the pressure of German Imperialism in 1874, in order to take away the artifacts left behind.
It is clear within the framework of new documents that the Ottoman State did not implement this law, and that permission was given under the pressure of the German State, again under the pressure of the German State, in the context of the agreement made in Berlin as a result of the Russian Army’s landing at the gates of Istanbul during the Russian War of 1877-78.
German authorities make no mention of these, like a cat covering its mess with sand. There is no mention of what was stolen before 1878 on the posters they hung on the door of the Museum/Prison. They have even forgotten the pressures they put on in the war environment.
The Altar of Zeus is a part of the city of Pergamon. The historical artifacts of Bergama are not a commodity or a booty.
Carrying a part of a city by smuggling it miles away and exhibiting it there does not fit the positive understanding of humanity at all.
The sun is no longer plastered with mud. It dries up real dirty mud.
The posters hung on the door of the Berlin Museum/Prison, which is closed to view today, do not suit the modern, high-cultured German State at all.
THE ALTAR OF ZEUS DOES NOT BELONG TO THE COLD AND MISUSED BERLINE, BEAUTIFUL BERGAMA, ANATOLIA. MUST COME BACK, GO HOME!
(Kaynak. Carl Human, Der Endecker von Pergamon, (Kazı Defteri), s.19-21/Wolfrang Radt, Pergamon, gesichte und,s.335-6/ Ali Sönmez/Yitik Miras Zeus Sunağı/İdeal yayıncılık/İstanbul-2020. Fotoğraflar için Nezih Öztüreye teşekkürler)
