The slideshow above includes text that narrates the story of Passover through visual art through the ages. Here is an excerpt of the text:

TORAH NICHE AND WALLS-Dura-Europos, 3rd c. Scheindlin, R. P. (1996). The Chronicles of the Jewish People. New York: Michael Friedman Publishing Group, Inc earliest known visual images from Exodus The city was a forti?ed caravan town Located on eastern frontier It was at the edge of the sassanid (Persian) empire It is now In Syria many different religions lived there, including Jews synagogue located adjacent to the walls of the town Dura-Europos, means "fortress" of "Europos" the name of the Emperor Seleuceus' I native village 256 CE-Persians conquered and destroyed Dura-Europos Survivors were deported and the city of Dura disappeared people piled mounds of dirt against walls to defend town Houses on the west wall were preserved for archaeologists discovered nearly 1700 years later in 1920 4