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A photo shows traditional mud-brick houses known as 'beehive houses' in the village of Umm Amuda al-Kabira in Aleppo's eastern countryside, north of Damascus on August 11, 2023. Traditional mud houses that residents of northern Syria have built for thousands of years risk disappearing, as 12 years of war have emptied villages and left the homes crumbling. The village in Aleppo province is among a handful of villages where residents long used to live in small domed houses made of mud bricks and brittle hay. (Photo by AFP) (KEYSTONE/AFP/-)