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