Dubbed the "Manhattan of the Dessert", the sprawling towers in this city are rather made up of a unique material - mud bricks ... of Turkey lies an abandoned village whose residents were forced ...

Shibam's buildings are made of mud brick. With its mud-brick buildings ... rectangular grid plan of streets and squares. The city is built on a rocky spur several hundred metres above the wadi ...

A brief history of Lubbock streets before brick is in order. The village of Lubbock, first settled in 1891 ... During rare ...