The Photography of Nicolas Sapieha: Oman's Heritage: Illustrations


Oman's Heritage: Illustrations	"The Photography of Nicolas Sapieha" February 13, 1998

Entranceway leads to Nakhl Fort, 50 miles west of Muscat, once considered invulnerable by Omanis. The fort's defenders are known to have doused attackers with asal, a sticky, boiling syrup made from dates. Badly damaged by cannon fire during a siege in 1769, the fort was restored in 1990 by a Moroccan team using local wood and mortar. This was the first fort we visited and, in my mind, the trip's defining image.

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