"Edge of Empires: Pagans, Jews and Christians at Roman Dura-Europos"

This new exhibit at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World focuses on Dura-Europos, an ancient city on the Euphrates River in present-day Syria that existed from the 4th century B.C. until A.D. 265, when it was destroyed by the Sassanian Persians. The unique characteristics of the city as a site where multiple religions lived is shown through the exhibit’s 77 artifacts, which came from ancient synagogues, Christian house-churches and pagan temples.