Shibam

Year

1500

Type

landscape

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Shibam is the walled mud-brick city of the Hadhramaut valley in southern Yemen, sometimes described as the oldest skyline of high-rise architecture in the world. The compact rectangular town sits on a low rise above the wadi floor, ringed b …

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