Aerial view of the ruins of Anqa, by Aurel Stein. Credit: Aerial Photographic Archive for Archaeology in the Middle East (APAAME) / Flickr The ancient city of Dura-Europos in modern-day Syria is well ...

Around 165 A.D., Christians, Jews and pagans lived and worshiped side by side in a cosmopolitan city called Dura-Europos by the Euphrates River on the frontier of the Roman Empire. Located in ...

The ancient city of Dura-Europos, which stood at the crossroads of the Hellenistic, Persian, and Roman worlds for some five centuries, is the subject of the upcoming exhibition at the Institute for ...

The conventional view of a unique early Christian building dating to the 3rd century has been challenged by experts. The remains of the structure, which was constructed around A.D. 232, is in the ...

1. New research by the French-Syrian archaeological expedition to Europos-Dura and new data on polytheistic sanctuaries in Europos-Dura / Pierre Leriche [and others] -- 2. Art historical frontiers: ...

The ancient city of Dura-Europos, located along the Euphrates River in Syria, has been largely destroyed by the Islamic State looters, marking a major loss for the archaeological community. But, new ...

The ancient city of Dura-Europos in present-day Syria has long fascinated archaeologists and historians with its wealth of cultural and linguistic diversity. But much of the valuable information about ...

Loquacious Lara, the water nymph, could not control her tongue. Unable to keep secrets she incurred the wrath of Jupiter who severed it and dispatched her to the Underworld. There she bore twins, the ...

This story originally appeared in Yale Engineering magazine. The ancient city of Dura-Europos, on the bank of the Euphrates River in present-day Syria, has long fascinated archaeologists and ...

The ancient Syrian city of Dura-Europos was attacked and then abandoned nearly 2000 years ago. Then, in 1922, archaeologists uncovered its sacred religious art. Much of it is housed at the Yale Art ...

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