City of Shibam historic away from the city Saan about ( 20 km) , which is one of the most ancient cities in Hadramout City Yemeni cities and most stop turning , which is the title of the ability of the Yemeni creativity and genius of construction , which is still up to the present distinctive in architecture , said to be " Manhattan Middle East." , " Chicago of the Desert" and " the first skyscrapers in the world," the high buildings like skyscrapers , located on an area of land is limited between the valleys and surrounded by flood waters and palm Cereals variety , and was the capital of several countries cushion the region , and is surrounded by the city's fence is connected to a single entrance and called ( Shibam Gateway ) .
The homes and the homes of the city's various adobe rise admirably , and the thickness of the walls ranges ground floor of the house in the Hadrami Shibam between the meter and a half and two meters , still tall buildings through the ages until this electronic age did not affect the loftiness ...
This city, which lies in the arms of the Empty Quarter to elude historians , artists, archaeologists and narrators news, wonderful in its structure a great build , tall in their buildings , barely one believe that there is such a city giant mud in the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula in the heart of Wadi Hadhramaut , on the outskirts of Empty Quarter desert . City of Shibam as described Hamdani ( City of all) , it was a great city stretching from the foot of the southern mountain ( Khibba ) until the valley north and east of the site , who call it a day ( Shqaih ) until the parties to the place named (HAISAM ) on an area equivalent to nearly 12 million dozen eleven million square meters , it was inhabited by non-Arab Qahtaon in ancient times to the sixth and seventh century Islamic Khalthm where Aladnanyen of the group of gentlemen Alawites and some of the Quraish.
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