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 stunning 16th century city hidden in a desolate stretch of desert in Yemen ... stone skyscrapers the Big Apple is famous for, Shibam was constructed using a suprising material - mud bricks.

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.

so they have to be periodically covered with mud. 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.

Towering high into the Yemeni desert, this city has skyscrapers made of a rather unusual material. Dubbed the ‘Manhattan of the Desert’, Shibam is just one of Yemen’s mud brick-based ...

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 ...