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Here we chart the rise of the city of Pergamum after the death of Alexander, the birth and development of the fabulous library by its kings, the invention of parchment for books, and Pergamum's great healing and medicinal  reputation and its final destruction and removal by Marc Antony.

 

The library was set up during the reigns of King Atalus I (d.197bce) and King Eumenes II (d.159bce).

 

One of the great innovatuons of the Peragamum Library and bequests to the world was the invention of parchement (named after Pergamum) after a scholasatic trade war of sorts  had broken out between King Eumenes II of Peragamum and King Ptolemy Philadelphus  of Egypt - and the latter prohibited the export of papyrus to Pergamum!