Ghonthur is a hamlet in the Syrian desert between Homs and Palmyra that still preserves some of the mud brick "beehive houses" that were historically the indigenous domestic architecture of the region.
Creator
Emma Loosley
Date of Visit
21st July 2001
Contributor
Emma Loosley
Daniel Hull
Rights
Metadata and all media released under Creative Commons
unless otherwise indicated
Related Resources
The photographs of the 2001-2003 survey and excavation seasons have been lodged with the Archaeological Data Service and are reproduced here with their permission. For those who would like more specialised information such as context and intervention numbers or direction of shot please refer to: http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/dmeap_ahrb_2004/gallery.cfm.
Type
Architecture
Tags
Architecture, Desert, Ghonthur, Syria
Collection
Citation
Emma Loosley, “Ghonthur,” Architecture and Asceticism, accessed April 25, 2024, https://architectureandasceticism.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/333.