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Dura-Europos [a] was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman border city built on an escarpment 90 metres (300 feet) above the southwestern bank of the Euphrates river. It is located near the village of Al-Salihiyah, in present-day Syria. Dura-Europos was founded around 300 BC by Seleucus I Nicator, who founded the Seleucid Empire as one of the ...
The Dura-Europos church (or Dura-Europos house church) is the earliest identified Christian house church. [1] ... The ruins of the oldest house church made of stone ...
The Dura-Europos synagogue was an ancient Jewish former synagogue discovered in 1932 at Dura-Europos, Syria. The former synagogue contained a forecourt and house of assembly with painted walls depicting people and animals, and a Torah shrine in the western wall facing Jerusalem .
The city in Iraq has long been “ignored entirely by archaeologists,” according to the study.
At Dura-Europos, relatively well-preserved wall paintings survived, many of them dating from the period when the city was under Roman rule (AD 164-256). The paintings in the holy of holies, known as the Sacrifice of Konon , however, date to the late first century BC or early first century AD, when the city was under Parthian rule.
Dura-Europos was an important trading center in Roman Syria. It may or may not be the same as the "Doura" recorded in Shapur I's inscriptions. The town was in Sasanian hands for some time after its fall, and was later abandoned. Intact archaeological evidences at Dura provide details of the Roman presence there, and the dramatic course of the ...
[1] The Dura-Europos church in Syria is the oldest surviving church building in the world, [2] while the archaeological remains of both the Aqaba Church and the Megiddo church have been considered to be the world's oldest known purpose-built church, erected in the Roman Empire's administrative Diocese of the East in the 3rd century.
Plan of Dura-Europos showing the Mithraeum marked as J7. Partially preserved by the defensive embankment was the Mithraeum (CIMRM 34–70), located between towers 23 and 24. . It was unearthed in January 1934 after years of expectation as to whether Dura would reveal traces of the Roman Mithras cu