Habuba Kabira, shell of a dome house made of clay bricks
Habuba Kabira, Mud brick construction – connection of wall, belt arch and dome rounding
Habuba Kabira, Milking a goat in the courtyard: Grandmother and granddaughters
Habuba Kabira, View from the inside of the room while constructing the dome
Habuba Kabira, construction of cantilever domes
Habuba Kabira, view over cantilever domes during construction
Habuba Kabira, maintenance of the house by a further exterior plastering
Habuba Kabira, master builder and his helper constructing the walls of a mud brick house
Habuba Kabira, during the construction of cantilever domes, the mortar is pulled up using a bucket
Habuba Kabira, view into a plastered cantilever dome with openings and decorative layer
Habuba Kabira, mixture of sifted raw loam, chaff and water to produce clay bricks therefrom
Kitchen tent with fireplace of a semi-nomadic family from the Maskana region
Habuba Kabira, in the courtyard clay bricks are lying out to dry
Living space in the tent of semi-nomadic family from the Maskana region
Habuba Kabira, inside the double-dome room with its relief arch
Habuba Kabira, shell of the dome house made of dried clay bricks with quarry stone base
Habuba Kabira, plastering of the domes after completion of the shell
Habuba Kabira, the plastered new dome house and its garden
Habuba Kabira, the new dome house has received its first plaster layer
Habuba Kabira, to make burghul (wheat grits) the wheat is cooked in a huge pot and then carried to a drying place
Habuba Kabira, construction of the corner of a mud brick house
Habuba Kabira, construction of the base of a mud brick house
Near Habuba Kabira, a family trip by boat to their former village, that was flooded in 1973 by the Tabqa-Dam
Guesthouse of a wealthy family in Maskana, attached is an iwan
In the tent of a semi-nomadic family from the Maskana region, with storage bags in the background.
At-Turn, Double-dome house on the edge of the steppe close to Maskana
A boat trip in the Euphrates, near Jabal ʿAruda
A view towards the Euphrates, Jabal ʿAruda
Fishing in the Euphrates, Jabal ʿAruda
Jabal ʿAruda on the right bank of the Euphrates
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