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2 unusual facts about Dura-Europos


Dura-Europos

It was rediscovered by the American Wolfe Expedition in 1885, when the Palmyrene Gate was photographed by John Henry Haynes.

Later, renewed campaigns directed by Michael Rostovtzeff continued until 1937, when funds ran out with only part of the excavations published.


Doura

For the town in Guinea see Doura, Guinea, for the Palestinian town in Hebron, see Dura, Hebron, for the neighborhood in Baghdad, see Dora, Baghdad

Dura Convertible Systems

The Dura location in Adrian, Michigan was closed and all production of Dura related business was moved to the Aguascalientes, Mexico facility that Magna also inherited in the summer of 2007.

Dura Parchment 24

On March 5, 1933, during the excavations conducted by Clark Hopkins amongst the ruins of a Roman border-town, Dura-Europos, on the lower Euphrates, under the embankment which filled in the street inside the wall and also covered the Christian church and the Jewish synagogue, the parchment fragment now known as Dura Parchment 24 was found.

Dura-Europos church

In 1933, among fragments of text recovered from the town dump outside the Palmyrene Gate, a fragmentary text was unearthed from an unknown Greek harmony of the gospel accounts.

Dura-Europos synagogue

Though this was quickly corrected by the vice-director of excavations Robert du Mesnil du Buisson in Les peintures de la synagogue de Doura-Europos (Rome, 1939).

Europos

A less known temporary name of Rey, Iran: the successors of Alexander rebuilt the town "Rhages" and renamed it "Europos"

Ford EEC

Like the General Motors H.E.I. module that preceded it, it was created with Surface-mount technology parts, allowing it to be much smaller than the previous Dura-Spark ignition module.

EEC-III uses a Dura-Spark III module (Brown grommet where wires emerge) and a Dura-Spark II ignition coil.

Himeria

The city, which was destroyed, has not been rediscovered; but it is thought to have been located near the Euphrates and Europos or Carchemish (Djerabis).

Parthian art

The best examples of this is now purely Parthian art but not from the capital, but from locations on the edge of the Parthian empire, such as Dura Europos, Hatra or belonging to the kingdom of Palmyra.

The Red Tyger Church

The band got picked up by a record label in Los Angeles called Alive/ Total Energy, an affiliate of Bomp! Records, and in 2004, they recorded their first album, "Free Energy", at RetroFit Studios with engineer Tony C. It also featured Celeste M from the San Francisco band Dura Delinquent on sax, and Tony C on congas.

The Three Marys

What may be the earliest known representation of three women visiting the tomb of Jesus is a fairly large fresco in the Dura-Europos church in the ancient city of Dura Europos on the Euphrates.


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