7The Iron Age temple of Ain Dara — Afrin, Syria

Built around 1300 BC, Ain Dara is a sprawling religious site decorated with a series of enormous footprints hewn into the ancient stone. Three times the size of a human foot, they’re believed by some archaeologists to represent the passage of a god or goddess.

The early Iron Age complex was extensively damaged in January 2018 by a Turkish airstrike targeting a Kurdish-held enclave south of the modern-day city of Afrin. More than half of the main temple was obliterated in the attack, including many of the intricate stone sculptures of lions and sphinxes that ringed the site.

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