A Yemeni city where the first skyscrapers in history were built 600 years ago

ArabiaWeather.com - Shibam is the ancient city of Hadhramaut Governorate in eastern Yemen, which amazingly contains the first skyscrapers in human history.

And the houses of this city were built from dirt in the middle of the desert, with the simplest available capabilities.

And the houses of this city were built about 600 years ago, and history books mentioned that it was exposed to a deadly epidemic in the year 784 AH, in which most of its people died.

Here are these pictures from this amazing historical place, which some called Manhattan of the desert.

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