Located in a fertile valley northeast of Irbid, Abila secured its place among the ten cities of the Roman Decapolis through its strategic location, thriving economy, and distinct identity — so much so ...

Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako, patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, presides over a celebratory liturgy at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on the occasion of the World Day of Eastern Christians on ...

In 359, he came to the Council of Seleucia, where Acaius was deposed and Cyril was returned to his see. But a year later, he was driven out again, and only returned when the emperor had been replaced ...

Seleucus of Seleucia was among the first to argue for heliocentrism, supporting Aristarchus’ model of the Sun-centered universe. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 Seleucus of Seleucia was a ...

Disturbing footage has emerged from Hama Governorate, showing a Muslim sheikh and Islamist radicals entering a Christian man’s home to “invite him to Islam.” In a video uploaded to social media last ...

A Greek Orthodox church in Syria’s Hama province was vandalised last week. The Hagia Sophia Greek Orthodox Church of Suqaylabiyah (Seleucia, Greek: Σελεύκεια) was vandalised by Turkish-backed Islamist ...

It was recaptured temporarily by Emperor Heraclius (r. 610-641). With the fall of Seleucia, it was captured by the Arabs for good. In the Ottoman period, members of the Greek Orthodox-Catholic Church ...

Nor do we know where it came from. Ancient sources insist that Roman soldiers brought it home after sacking the Parthian city of Seleucia in the autumn of 165. This sounds like the medieval theory ...

The Christians of the Church of the East had their own Patriarch (Katholikos) based in Seleucia-Ctesiphon, on the banks of the Tigris River in Mesopotamia. This distancing from the Churches of the ...

In 64 B.C., the Romans conquered Seleucia, renaming the town Zeugma, which means “bridge” or “crossing” in ancient Greek.

0 0 This article was originally published with the title “The Tunneling of Seleucia, Syria” in SA Supplements Vol. 27 No. 694supp (April 1889), p. 11091 ...