Dura-Europos was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman border city built on an escarpment 90 metres (300 feet) above the southwestern bank of the Euphrates...

The Dura-Europos church (or Dura-Europos house church) is the earliest identified Christian house church. It was located in Dura-Europos, Syria, and one...

The Dura-Europos synagogue was an ancient Jewish former synagogue discovered in 1932 at Dura-Europos, Syria. The former synagogue contained a forecourt...

The scutum from Dura-Europos is the only surviving semi-cylindrical shield (scutum) from Roman times. It is now in the Yale University Art Gallery (inventory...

of Dura Europos took place when the Sasanians under Shapur I besieged the Roman city of Dura-Europos in 256 after capturing Antioch. Dura-Europos was...

The house that is known as Dura-Europos' brothel is a part of the Block G5 agora of Dura-Europos, and specifically refers to the house G5-C. It was the...

belonged to the upper class of the city for several generations; in Dura-Europos, a relief dated to 159/158 (470 of the Seleucid era, SE) was commissioned...

Bel, also known as the Temple of the Palmyrene gods, was located in Dura Europos, an ancient city on the Euphrates, in modern Syria. The temple was established...

painting Dura Europos synagogue Ezekiel in the Valley of Dry Bones cycle Dura Europos synagogue Ezekiel in the Valley of Dry Bones cycle Dura Europos synagogue...

Fourth century archaeological finds (especially from the fortress of Dura-Europos) indicate the subsequent use of oval or round shields which were not...

Palmyra and at Dura-Europos she appeared repeatedly with her consort, Hadad, and in the richly syncretic religious culture at Dura-Europos, was worshipped...

research knowledge in Parthian art is not complete. The excavations at Dura-Europos in the 20th century provided many new discoveries. The classical archaeologist...

Dura-Europos. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 19. Kosmin, Paul (2011). Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity. p. 97. Baird, Jennifer (2018). Dura-Europos. Bloomsbury...

of Dura-Europos. Baird completed a PhD at the University of Leicester, graduating in 2006, with a thesis entitled: 'Housing and households at Dura-Europos:...

the Yale dig at Dura-Europos, and was the first female archaeologist to work at the site. Unlike the male archaeologists at Dura-Europos, Crosby did not...

The Dura-Europos route map, also known as stages map, is the fragment of a speciality map from Late Antiquity discovered 1923 in Dura-Europos. The map...

The Mithraeum of Dura Europos was found during excavations in the city in 1934. It is considered to be one of the best-preserved and best-documented cult...

damaged extensively, as evidenced by satellite imagery of the area. Dura-Europos is an ancient city located in modern-day southeast Syria covering about...

city of Dura-Europos, located near the agora (insula H1). It contained reliefs dedicated to the tutelary deities (in Aramaic, Gaddē) of Dura-Europos and the...

After Mithridates II extended Parthian control further west, occupying Dura-Europos in 113 BC, he became embroiled in a conflict with the Kingdom of Armenia...

no central supervisory authority. In some mithraea, such as that at Dura Europos, wall paintings depict prophets carrying scrolls, but no named Mithraic...

metal plates, possibly made of brass.: 78–80  At the ancient site of Dura-Europos, there were two full sets of scale armor for horses found during archaeology...

synagogues in at least thirteen places across the diaspora, spanning from Dura-Europos in Syria to Elche in Hispania (modern-day Spain). An especially sizable...

(Canaanite) moon god Jarih (Yariḫ). It is characteristic that on the stele in Dura Europos (2nd century AD), apart from the radiant crown, it is additionally decorated...

Dura-Europos Temple of Atargatis, Dura-Europos Temple of the Gadde, Dura-Europos Temple of Adonis, Dura-Europos Temple of Artemis Azzanathkona, Dura -Europos...

(1900–1969) was an archaeologist known for her work on the excavations at Dura-Europos. Hopkins was born in 1900 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. She studied at Cedar...

the Last Supper) in Jerusalem was the "first Christian church." The Dura-Europos church in Syria is the oldest surviving church building in the world...

superiority" (Richard Dawkins). Some of the earliest depictions of Jesus at the Dura-Europos church are firmly dated to before 256. Thereafter, despite the lack of...

Haverfield was ultimately proved right by the 1931-32 excavations at Dura-Europos in Syria that uncovered three Sator separate square inscriptions, all...

Gallery 1938.5302) was discovered in the Temple of Zeus Megistos in Dura-Europos during the 1935–1937 excavations undertaken by Yale University and the...