Who Built These Ancient Skyscrapers?

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Visits Shibam in Yemen, the walled town of mud-brick tower houses, and explains who built them, why they went up and how the town has survived floods and war.

The mud-brick high-rises of Shibam in Yemen and who built them.

Video by The Present Past, played through YouTube's embedded player.