The archaeological site of Dura-Europos, located on the banks of the Euphrates River, is a testament to the multicultural heritage of ancient Iraq and its role in trade and culture. #DuraEuropos #MulticulturalHeritage

SignumRegis Releases a New Lyric Video for The Song 'Dura Europos' mauce.nl/signum-regis-r… #SignumRegis #DuraEuropos #GöranEdman #TheEyesofPower

🧵17/25: Other than the armor fragments, also shield bosses and grips were found. Commonly, we often think of Persian soldiers using shields made of mantlet of reeds such as the one from #DuraEuropos but these shield bosses tell us an entirely different story.

Lorica Squamata from 'squamae' -scales. This type of armour was used across the ranks in the #Roman army. 1,2) fragment from #Trimontium, made of small plates of brass, linked with brass wire & laced onto a garment. 3) horse scale #armour, from #DuraEuropos 4) depictions in art

Examples of #looting from #MiddleEast and #NorthernAfrica #DuraEuropos #Ebla #Aswan Riccardo Giovanelli VEiL Project ESA Earth Observation #ALCEO project

studyfinds.org/christians-did… Christians didn’t worship in houses? New study drops bombshell on religious archaeology. For nearly a century, scholars have pointed to a modest structure in #DuraEuropos as the prototype of #Christianarchitecture – a simple house transformed into a

New research challenges the idea that #DuraEuropos housed the oldest "house church." Scholars reveal it was a dedicated Christian worship space, not a residential building. Discover the implications of this fascinating find. #ReligiousHistory

House call: A new study rethinks early Christian landmark news.yale.edu/2024/08/12/hou… Camille Leon Angelo Yale University and Josh Silver Yale Art Gallery #duraeuropos

For an insight into latest scholarship on #DuraEuropos, see the new special issue of Pasts Imperfect. Thrilled that my research on childhood at the site gets a mention too. pastsimperfect.substack.com/p/pasts-imperf…

So happy to see Camille’s brilliant work highlighted, along with an overview of current research and collaborative work with the cultural heritage and collections of #duraeuropos

Archaeologists identify Dura-Europos’ neglected sister site in Syria More information: archaeologymag.com/2024/04/dura-e… #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #parthians #duraeuropos #anqa

"A painting of a Jewish man done around 244 A.D. has had a hazy identification. The scholar #BarbaraCrostini argues the figure might be “the earliest #portrait of #Jesus.'" #DuraEuropos #Syria Read this story from #JonathanPoletti (Jonathan Poletti) on Medium: medium.com/belover/has-th…

#Syria: nella foto il più antico dipinto del volto di Gesù (2° secolo). Si trova a #DuraEuropos, nei pressi di #DeirEzzor. Aiutiamo i cristiani in #MedioOriente, con la preghiera e con azioni concrete, affinché possano continuare, nonostante le guerre e le persecuzioni, ad

RT’d for #ShieldSunday 👇Thread on the only surviving #Roman legionary long shield C3rd AD Found #DuraEuropos in #Syria #Archaeology

#duraeuropos front and center in the British Museum’s catalogue #legionexhibition!

Great mail day! Honored to have contributed to this beautiful catalogue by @FowlkesBlair for the Katonah Museum, Stories of Syria’s Textiles: Art and Heritage across Two Millennia, which includes several loans from Yale Art Gallery #duraeuropos

#Opendata through @Wikidata makes #LinkedData "accessible in ways that were never possible before" or stuck behind glass cases and in the local language. Fantastic presentation on #WikiProjectIdea Wikidata:WikiProject IDEA on the ancient Syrian city of "#DuraEuropos: Crossroads