Syrians won’t give up on the battered Great Mosque of Aleppo

Civil War hair dye, towers of Narragansett, and a song with no meaning. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. December 12, 2019 Picking Up the Pieces The Great Mosque of Aleppo stood as a symbol of the Syrian city for more than 900 years—but in 2013, fighting between Syrian rebels and the Assad regime shattered its minaret into 2,000 pieces. Now, amidst all the rubble, a group of Syrians is trying to bring the Great Mosque back. Read More → Found: Civil War-Era Hair Dye Before they headed to battle, many soldiers likely posed for photographs and, judging by the glass fragments that have turned up on the site of Camp Nelson in Kentucky, scores of them seem to have dyed their hair before they wandered in front of the camera. Read more → Atlas Obscura Trips Holiday Offer: Sardinia Sailing Next summer, set sail on an eight-day voyage along Sardinia’s coastline. We’ll cruise through the crystalline waters of Italy on a modern 46-foot catamaran. Explore uninhabited islands and dive into hidden swimming holes. Best of all, enjoy regional dishes prepared by our onboard chef, a Sardinia native. Hurry, refer a friend to join you and you’ll both receive $250 off if you book before December 31st! Learn more → Narragansett, Rhode Island Surviving Towers These towers once played a key role in the social life of Rhode Islanders in the late 1800s. It was part of the great Narragansett Pier Casino, which was considered one of the United States’s most prestigious resorts. Read more → Israel Secret Ancient Cave This 300,000-year-old cave in Israel's Judean Hills was hidden from the public for seven years after it was discovered in 1968. Read more → From the archives This Song Is All Nonsense There’s a long tradition of songs that “sound” like another language without actually meaning anything. In Italy, for example, beginning in the 1950s, American songs inspired a diverse range of “American sounding” cultural products that, in reality, were just delightful nonsense. Read more → Baker, California Mojave Megaphone No one’s quite sure why an 8-foot-long iron megaphone is sitting on top of a hill in a remote strip of the Mojave Desert. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222