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Years before skyscrapers were built elsewhere, this little city in Yemen had skyscrapers built out of mud bricks, some ranging almost over 10 stories tall.  Seems like this could be a great place for photographers to get some great footage of one of the earliest skyscrapers in the world that still exists today.

Constructed out of mud bricks made from local clay, around 500 of Shibam’s buildings are tower houses standing between and 5 and 11 storeys tall. These are the tallest mud buildings in the world, some of them soaring over 100 feet high. Like the fortified wall that surrounds this fortress city, the building practice was employed to protect inhabitants from attacks by marauding Bedouin tribes.

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