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

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br />ArabiaWeather.com - Shibam is the ancient city of Hadhramaut Governorate in eastern Yemen, which amazingly contains the first skyscrapers in human history.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> And the houses of this city were built from dirt in the middle of the desert, with the simplest available capabilities.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> 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.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Here are these pictures from this amazing historical place, which some called Manhattan of the desert. </p><p class="rtecenter" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="/contents/sites/default/files/editor/images/shabbam.jpg" style="height:450px; width:600px" /></p><p class="rtecenter" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="/contents/sites/default/files/editor/images/shib.jpg" style="height:450px; width:600px" /></p><p class="rtecenter" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="/contents/sites/default/files/editor/images/shibam01-1.jpg" style="height:390px; width:600px" /></p><p class="rtecenter" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="/contents/sites/default/files/editor/images/YMN05_DIG_0001.jpg" style="height:392px; width:600px" /></p><p class="rtecenter" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="/contents/sites/default/files/editor/images/shibam01-1(1).jpg" style="height:390px; width:600px" /></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="http://bit.ly/11fa2v7">The frozen continent of Antarctica - a wonder preserved in the ice</a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="http://bit.ly/148psWg">Scary pictures from Death Road, the most dangerous street in the world</a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="http://bit.ly/15rZbC1">In pictures: 10 animals you didn&#39;t know existed</a></p>