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Aleppo | Nick Maes | Syria, The Northeastern Desert, Aleppo

Aleppo claims to be the oldest, continually inhabited city in the world – a crown that Damascus or Benares might dispute; but who cares about a millennium or two?

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Ancient Aleppo | Amar Grover | Syria, The Northeastern Desert, Aleppo

From pagan temple to church, mosques to fortress, palace to cafeteria, this citadel has seen it all; ruins and remains scatter its slopes. 'Halab', the city's Arabic name, derives from the word for milk; it's up here, by the Mosque of Abraham, that Abraham reputedly milked his cow - and where I paused for a cup of coffee

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Elusive Aleppo | Mark Hudson | Syria, The Northeastern Desert, Aleppo

The call to prayer goes up from first one mosque, then another - the long wavering notes overlapping, filling the darkening sky with their conference of yearning and wonder

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Syria | John Hatt | Syria, The Northeastern Desert, Aleppo

You are safe everywhere, probably several hundred times safer than in New York. You aren't hassled by shopkeepers or cheated by taxi-drivers. And so many people invite you for coffee or tea that after a few days

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