A 16th-century walled city in Yemen remains the World’s oldest metropolis to use vertical construction and is famous for its 600 adobe-built medieval skyscrapers, seven or eight stories high, as witnessed by these images released by an EPA photographer.
Source: World’s oldest high-rise metropolis still standing in civil war-torn Yemen
Categories: Yemen
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