Shibam's buildings are made of mud brick. With its mud-brick buildings, Shibam, a 16th-century city surrounded by a fortified wall, has been dubbed the "Manhattan of the Desert." With buildings ...

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 ...

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 ...