According to a report by The Guardian, Shibam has largely escaped direct violence of the Yemen's complex civil war, but is still suffering from years of neglect, despite being a Unesco world ...

Dubbed the ‘Manhattan of the Desert’, Shibam is just one of Yemen’s mud brick-based skyscraper cities dotting the country. Yemen’s style of skyscraper is unique, being made of mud bricks ...

A remarkable 16th-century city, hidden in a barren stretch of Yemen's desert, has been a source of fascination for centuries. The Walled City of Shibam is believed to be the world's oldest city to ...

In October 2019, The Guardian's Beth McKernan took a look at the cost Yemen's civil war is having on its ancient cities. Shibam is no longer getting funding to preserve its mud brick buildings ...

But during the last few years, Shibam has been threatened by natural disasters as well as by the war and the terrorism suffered by Yemen. In 2008, a flood caused severe damage to the buildings.

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 ...

A 19th-Century sultan's palace in Yemen that is one of the world's largest ... tower houses of the nearby 16th-Century Old City of Shibam, which is known as the "Manhattan of the desert" and ...

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