Edge of Empires at Dura Europos
...during my time at Yale University Art Gallery when I worked on digitizing our amazing Dura Europos collection). I could literally go on and on about Dura (ask my wife),...
Dura Europos and Me
Thanks to Evernote, I’ve been able to digitize most of the notebooks I’ve written on Dura Europos. I know take digital notes on the small city, but thumbing back through...
More on Dura Europos Looting
The first image is the site of Dura Europos from June 28 2012 and the second image is from April 2 2014 (notice how many looting holes there are now):...
Dura Europos as a “Moonscape of Craters”
...stretched from the Gulf to the Mediterranean, will “become like Dura-Europos on the Euphrates, a moonscape of craters [from looters pits].” Dura-Europos is a Hellenistic city whose site used to...
“Dura Europos Fanboy”
Merianna just called me a “Dura Europos Fanboy” as she walked past me reading an article in this morning’s NY Times by Prof. Michael Peppard about Dura Europos while drinking...
Destroying Dura Europos
A Greek settlement on the Euphrates not far from Syria’s border with Iraq, Dura-Europos later became one of Rome’s easternmost outposts. It housed the world’s oldest known Christian church, a...
Dura Europos Synagogue Paper
...I banged out covering the issue of Midrashic understanding of the paintings in the synagogue at Dura Europos… dura-paper-spring-2007-williams-february-26-2007-gwu-2.pdf What is Dura Europos, you ask? Ah, well… you have homework!...
Dura Europos Looting
The “holes” in the inset picture are looting holes from the area near the main agora at Dura Europos. Sadly, we haven’t properly excavated much of that area. This literally...
Visiting Dura Europos
I look forward to visiting Dura Europos myself one day. Here’s a fun travel-logue by a traveler: Dura Europos was certainly the most attractive archaeological site I visited in Syria....
Dura Europos Looting and Devastation Update
...300 B.C. Brian Daniels, director of research at the Penn Cultural Heritage Center in Philadelphia, describes Dura Europos as “a snapshot in time.” “It has the oldest synagogue known in...