Narrative Site — General Region
Traditional Site of Eutychus's Fall
YOO-tih-kus · Modern Ruins of Alexandria Troas, near Dalyan/Ezine, Çanakkale Province, Turkey · 39.7517° N, 26.1586° E
Acts 20:7-12 recounts that during Paul's farewell visit to Troas, a young man named Eutychus fell asleep during Paul's long, late-night sermon, fell from a third-story window, and was found apparently dead — after which Paul embraced him and he was restored. The text places the event in an upper room of a house in Troas, but no specific building has ever been identified. This entry marks the broad site of ancient Alexandria Troas, not any pinpointed structure.
Archaeology
Alexandria Troas was a major Roman-era port city; its ruins today include a bath complex, an odeon, a theatre, a gymnasium, and a stadium uncovered by German-led excavations in the early 2000s. No archaeological work has identified a specific house or "upper room" connected to the Eutychus narrative — the biblical account gives no address-level detail.
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Further reading
Reflect
The believers at Troas stayed up all night because their time together was short — who would you stay up all night with, talking about what matters?
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