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After ISIS militants seized control of Palmyra—the ancient Syrian city called the “Venice of the Sands”— last May, they immediately set out to destroy it.
In 2009, architectural photographer Peter Aaron poignantly documented Syria's ancient landmarks before they were destroyed by war. An exhibition of Aaron's work is now on view at the Center for Architecture in New York, through July 13, 2019.