UNUSUAL SYRIAN BEEHIVE HOUSES

There are alot of unique homes around the world. These traditional beehive houses found at the Srouj Village, Syria in the Middle East are built from mud bricks and straw.

The way they have been built is to keep you cool in the summer and warm in the winter. At the time they were created they didn't have the modern technologies of air conditioning and ways to be able to control temperatures.

The name naturally comes from the shape of the building as you can see, and were designed to either have none or hardly any windows, just the doorway and the hole in the rooftop dome area that collects the hot air to take it away from the home.

Rooftop dome area

Average inside temperatures could be around 75-85 degrees Fahrenheit, and come the colder times their structure was a solid one against the strong desert winds.

Quite a few of these unusual homes still remain in a couple of the towns today, and are a popular spot to go for travellers to the Middle East.