Category: Dura Europos

The Siege of Dura-Europos

Jun 14, 2025

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Mark

in Ancient Rome, Dura Europos, Everything Latin, Middle East, Parthian War, Roman Empire, Roman Mining

Courtesy Yale University Art Gallery, Dura-Europos Excavation Archive by Selme Angulo, and fact checked by Darci Heikkinen on 20th July 2023 In 256 AD, a war was being fought between the Romans and the Sasanians, and some brutal fighting took place during the awful Siege of Dura-Europos in what is now Syria. Europos, an old Macedonian-Greek military…