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Citadel of Aleppo, Temple of the Weather God, early 1st millennium BC
Manbij, Bakery of flat bread with oven
Habuba Kabira, plastering of the domes after completion of the shell
Habuba Kabira, shell of the dome house made of dried clay bricks with quarry stone base
Habuba Kabira, inside the double-dome room with its relief arch
Habuba Kabira, the new dome house has received its first plaster layer
Habuba Kabira, view into a plastered cantilever dome with openings and decorative layer
Habuba Kabira, the plastered new dome house and its garden
Habuba Kabira, to make burghul (wheat grits) the wheat is cooked in a huge pot and then carried to a drying place
Kirkbiza in the Dead Cities: A farmer ploughing his field with a metal plough, pulled by a mule and an ox.
Hama, Waterwheels of Kilaniyya, al-Tawafira and al-Jaʿbariyya
Dead Cities, Kirkbiza: A team of mule and oxen pulling a metal plough.
ʿAyn al-ʿArus, view into the ceiling of a village mud bricks house, armenian owners
On september 14th at the Holy Cross Feast in Maʿlula, with the standard of the Holy Cross Youth
Shahba, Exterior view of the Roman Theatre/ Philippopolis
View of the old town from Maʿlula with its traditionally light blue painted facades
Maʿlula, the procession to the Holy Cross celebration also passes through the narrow alleys of the old town.
Vicinity of Tall Abyad, shell of the house with flattened domes and opening in one dome
Palmyra, Hadrian’s Arch, , 3rd century A.D., view from south at the entrance to colonnaded street
Traditional house with reed hut (“sibat”, arab.) in Euphrates valley at the national road 4/junction to ar-Raqqa
Raqqa, main shopping road with salesman of vegetables
Bridge over the Euphrates at Raqqa
A group of columns, remains of the southern Roman baths in Busra
Habuba Kabira, construction of a relieving arch using piled bricks, which are later removed
Habuba Kabira, mixture of sifted raw loam, chaff and water to produce clay bricks therefrom
Habuba Kabira, during the construction of cantilever domes, the mortar is pulled up using a bucket
Habuba Kabira, master builder and his helper constructing the walls of a mud brick house
Habuba Kabira, construction of a mud brick house before the circular of the domes is started
Habuba Kabira, the stacked bricks under the relieving arch are removed by the master bilder
Habuba Kabira, in the courtyard clay bricks are lying out to dry
