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Dura-Europos, Archaeology of

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Introduction

Dura-Europos provides an excellent illustration of the potential of archaeology for the study of the human past. The detailed, vivid, and dramatic story of the life and violent death of this 2000-year-old Middle Eastern city has been told almost entirely through archaeological evidence and writings recovered in excavation; it was virtually unknown to conventional text-based history (Fig. 1).

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A plan of Dura-Europos, showing the principal identified features of the city. (Credit: Simon James after MFSED)

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James, S. (2014). Dura-Europos, Archaeology of. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1122

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