Dura Europos

Named Europos by the Greeks and Dura by the Romans, the history of Dura-Europos is founded on powerful cultural and religious crosscurrent...

A Macedonian Greek of the Seleucid Empire around 300 BCE founded Dura-Europos, sometime after Alexander the Great’s death. The initial cit...

The Roman emperor, Trajan, captured the city in 115 CE, erecting a ceremonial arch outside the city, but Dura-Europors returned to Parthian ...

Dura-Europos fell in 256 CE to the Sasanian Empire, under King Shapur, heirs to the Parthian Empire. While there is no written record of h...

Although the existence of Dura-Europos was known in various literary sources, it was not “rediscovered” until the Arab Revolt in the after...

The Christian house church at Dura Europos was the earliest house church discovered by archaeologists. Like the synagogue nearby, layers o...

The house church was set up in a upper class home typical of the Roman Empire. Its structure consisted of a large house surrounding a courty...