Dubbed the "Manhattan of the Dessert", the sprawling towers in this city are rather made up of a unique material - mud bricks. Almost all the buildings of Shibam are built with mud bricks using a ...

"Within weeks, to the team's great surprise, formations of mud bricks began to appear in all directions," Dr Hawass said in his statement. "What they unearthed was the site of a large city in a ...

One such example is the ancient city of Akrotiri ... The Enduring Strength and Magic of Mud Brick in Africa Mud brick, often ...

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 ...

The extreme weather conditions 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 the desert" and is a Unesco World ...