Syria’s Aleppo soap joins Unesco’s global list of intangible cultural heritage
The UN’s cultural organisation added Aleppo’s famous soap to its intangible cultural heritage list on Tuesday with Syria’s second city again wracked by war. Artisans have brewed olive and laurel oil in large pots for some 3,000 years in the city – which fell to Islamist-led rebels last week – allowing the mixture to cool…