Traditional Syrian House Plan. Image Courtesy of M. Hosam Jiroudy, Architect. Basement Floor. In extreme weather conditions during summer or winter, basement floors often act as thermal moderators ...

Traditional mud-brick houses that the people of northern Syria have built for thousands of years risk disappearing, as 12 years of war have emptied villages and left the buildings crumbling.Also ...

During this process, the home, “a traditional Syrian Christian house” with finely-hewn woodwork, red-oxide floors and a tiled roof, went through various changes: the red-oxide floors were ...

MARAAT AL-NUMAN, Syria (AP) — A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled across a surprise: the remains of an ...

MARAAT AL-NUMAN, Syria — A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled across a surprise: the remains of an ...