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This “Timeline of Selected Historical Building Facades in Aleppo” highlights primarily exterior facades with a particular focus on doors and windows from the Seljuk period to modern times. The elements are chosen from 60 historical buildings including religious, commercial and residential buildings. The focus is on the presentation of a general chronological sequence. All pictures are selected from the collections of the Syrian Heritage Archive Project (SHAP). Many of these monuments were affected, damaged or destroyed, by the conflict in Syria, the clashes of which lasted in Aleppo from 2012 to 2016; reconstruction work is ongoing. Thus, it seems particularly important to recall and document the diversity and richness of detail in the city’s built heritage, which give testimony to the traditional skills and competence of the builders, architects and craftsmen and which contribute to Aleppo's local identity and its position as a distinguished and beautiful city.