In Hergla, Raqqa, one family is painstakingly rebuilding the city’s heritage. They are the only producers of historically-accurate bricks in Syria, churning the clay by foot and baking the bricks in a kiln. ISIS famously destroyed many historical sites and artifacts across territory they once controlled in Syria and Iraq.
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