Shibam's buildings are made of mud brick. With its mud-brick buildings ... giving the world its first skyscrapers. The tallest of Shibam's mudbrick and cedarwood towers contains eight storeys ...
A remarkable 16th-century city, hidden in a barren stretch of Yemen's desert ... famous steel and stone skyscrapers, Shibam was built using an unexpected material - mud bricks.
Shibam is known as the "Manhattan of the desert," because it's made up of mud brick skyscrapers that shoot ... Guardian's Beth McKernan took a look at the cost Yemen's civil war is having on ...
A 19th-Century sultan's palace in Yemen that is one of ... also caused damage to the mud-brick tower houses of the nearby 16th-Century Old City of Shibam, which is known as the "Manhattan of ...
In April 2006, my friend Nikolaus Scholz and I flew to Sana'a, the capital of the Republic of Yemen, and traveled to Shibam, the legendary mud-brick skyscraper city, the ancient „Manhattan of ...