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Palmyra, View from hilltop towards the Valley of the tombs and the palm groves
Valley of the Tombs, Tomb of Jambliku – decoration of the door lintel
Tomb of Elahbel in the Valley of the Tombs, facade
Tomb of Elahbel in the Valley of the Tombs, interior view
Jurn Kabir, a typical old house of the Euphrates valley near Qalʿat Najm with a large log (willow) transverse to the longitudinal axis.
Tomb of Jambliku in the Valley of the Tombs, 83 AD
In the Euphrates valley in Jurn Kabir, shepherd herding the flocks of his village
The village of al-Qirata on the northern slope of the Sajur valley, old lime-washed houses visible.
Aerial photograph of Barada valley in Jibal Lubnan ash-Sharqiyya (Anti Lebanon mountains)
Valley of the Tombs, Tomb of Jambliku – facade decoration
Nature in Barada valley
A view of the Barada valley showing the train rail
In al-Hayat/Balikh valley, procedure of calcination of gypsum (2nd step): the fuel was lit
In al-Hayat/Balikh valley, procedure for calcination of gypsum (1st step), fuel is placed on a natural gypsum layer
Manmade caves in the Euphrates valley near embouchure of Sajur-river close to al-Awshariyya
The Valley of Tombs – sculptures of the deads who are buried in a tower tomb
Aerial photograph of Jibal Lubnan ash-Sharqiyya (Anti-Lebanon Mountains) with Barada valley
Valley of Nahr Al-Kabir al-Shamali River
Valley of the Tombs, Tomb of Jambliku – lintel of the entranceway door
The tower tombs, Valley of the Tombs
Traditional house with reed hut (“sibat”, arab.) in Euphrates valley at the national road 4/junction to ar-Raqqa
Raʾs al-ʿAyn, view from the garden to the late Ottoman house, situated on a slope
Small wadi in the desert of Badiyat ash-Sham
General view of Maʿlula
View of the Orontes River with rapids
Northern Palmyrenean chalk heights, lonely Atlantic pistachio in the riverbed of a dried-up wadi
Roman bridge in at-Tayyiba over the course of the Wadi az-Zaydi
General view of ʿAyn as-Sahib