Dura-Europos

Past, Present, Future

Edited by Lisa Brody Edited by Anne Hunnell Chen

Book cover: Dura-Europos

Extent: 245, 245 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Ancient Near East

Series: Studies in Classical Archaeology

Series volume number: 16

Language: Arabic

Paperback (Published)

(September 2025)

ISBN: 9782503616049

Price: $138.00

In stock

Proceedings from an international conference on the ancient city of Dura-Europos (Syria) held at Yale University in 2022, with papers that explore its cultural heritage through multidisciplinary research approaches.


This volume brings together an international and interdisciplinary host of scholars to reflect on the complicated legacies of exploration at the archaeological site of Dura-Europos, situated on the western bank of the Euphrates River near modern Salihiyeh (Syria). A chance discovery after World War I kicked off a series of excavations that would span the next century and whose finds are today housed in collections worldwide, including the Yale University Art Gallery, the Louvre, and the National Museum in Damascus. Dura-Europos exemplifies a multiethnic frontier town at the crossroads of major trade routes. Its textual remains and remarkably-preserved Christian, Jewish, and polytheist religious sanctuaries provide key resources for the study of antiquity and attest to the cross-cultural interconnectivity that was demonstrably central to the ancient world but which has been too often obscured by Eurocentric historiographic traditions and siloed disciplinary divisions.

  • Edited by Lisa Brody
  • Edited by Anne Hunnell Chen