A new exhibit at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World brings to life the ancient city of Dura-Europos, which stands high above the Euphrates River on the eastern border of modern Syria, a monument to vanished eras. The exhibition celebrates both the peoples who lived there—Jews, Christians, and pagans—and, more quietly, the scholars who unearthed the city during the 20th century's golden age of Near East archaeologyBackground on the exhibition and on Dura Europos here and many links.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
ALex Joffe: Diversity at Dura-Europos
ALEX JOFFE: Diversity at Dura-Europos (Jewish Ideas Daily).