{"id":7376,"date":"2025-08-08T23:52:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/jabal-seis-volcano-castle\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T23:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:58:07","slug":"jabal-seis-volcano-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/jabal-seis-volcano-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Jabal Seis ( Volcano Castle)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jabal Seis is considered one of the most enchanting sites in the Syrian desert: an Umayyad fortress built between 707 and 715 CE within the crater of an extinct volcano, transformed into a caliphal summer retreat that collected winter rainwater. The surviving structures consist of mudbrick walls reinforced with wooden pegs, which provided flexibility against thermal expansion. A Kufic inscription on the southern gate bears the name of Caliph al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jabal Seis is considered one of the most enchanting sites in the Syrian desert: an Umayyad fortress built between 707 and 715 CE within the crater of an extinct volcano, transformed into a caliphal summer retreat that collected winter rainwater. The surviving structures consist of mudbrick walls reinforced with wooden pegs, which provided flexibility against thermal expansion. A Kufic inscription on the southern gate bears the name of Caliph al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,379],"tags":[241],"class_list":["post-7376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-castles-rural-damascus","category-rural-damascus","tag-partially-destroyed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}