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In a small village on the Khabur: foreign visitors are welcomed
Irrigation canal, al-Furat al-Aʿla (the Upper Euphrates Valley)
An artificial irrigation canal, al-Furat al-Aʿla (the Upper Euphrates Valley)
Salt production in extraction, possibly in as-Sabkha in the Euphrates Valley
Picnic on the Euphrates bank, al-Furat al-Aʿla (the Upper Euphrates Valley)
An artificial canal, al-Furat al-Aʿla (the Upper Euphrates Valley)
North-East Syria, the Upper Euphrates
Nahiyat Tall Tamir, The domes of the houses built in the 1930s were often flattened later.
Al-Asad artificial lake, view to the Tabqa dam
Nahiyat Tall Tamir, The flattened dome roofs have just received new plastering.
Nahiyat Tall Tamir, Woman builds a silo for her supplies during the winter
Nahiyat Tall Tamir, Entrance corridor in front of the collapsed cupola house
Manmade caves in the Euphrates valley near embouchure of Sajur-river close to al-Awshariyya
Women and children (of a family of former nomads) in one of the Upper Euphrates Valley villages
View of a hill in the upper Euphrates valley (al-Furat al-Aʿla)
Topographical map collection “UAR North (Syrian) region, district El Furāt” of 1960
A Bedouin family in one of the villages of the Euphrates Valley
View of the Euphrates river with very shallow banks
Grazing sheep on the Euphrates
Shore zone of the Euphrates with tree vegetation of Lake Assad
Nahiyat Tall Tamir, Baking flat breads on the tannur wall (tannur deepened in the ground)
North-East Syria, the Upper Euphrates
Near Tall Tamir, In a tannur deepened in the ground the flat breads are baked
View of as-Sajur river
North-East Syria: Weaving in a tent
Euphrates plain near the mouth of the Sajur, limestone massif on the south side ((before the flooding of lake Tishrin)
The cold (barrani) section of as-Salamiyya historical bath
Archaeological finds from Raqqa, exhibited in the Damascus National Museum
Archaeological finds from Raqqa, exhibited in the Damascus National Museum