The site

Dura-Europos was a border city perched on an escarpment ninety metres above the Euphrates in present-day Syria, founded around 300 BCE by Seleucus I Nicator. Passing through Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman hands, it became Rome's easternmost stronghold in Mesopotamia before a Sasanian siege ended it in 256–257 CE. Abandoned and buried under sand, it was so well preserved that archaeologists dubbed it the "Pompeii of the Desert."

Field notes

civilizations

Roman

types

City

built

300 BCE

occupied

300 BCE — 256 CE

country

Syria