The conical adobe structures are designed to keep cool in the blazing desert sun, while their thick walls retain warmth in the winter.
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.
"Our village once had 3,000 to 3,500 residents and some 200 mud houses," said Mahmud al Mheilej, standing beside deserted homes with weeds growing out of the roofs. While the violence has waned in the area, instability and economic hardship have long become a fact of life across Syria. Syria's war broke out in 2011 and quickly escalated into a conflict that has killed more than 500,000 people, and millions have been displaced.
Local masons were among those who fled the fighting, leaving the region short of their ancestral know-how.
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