If you mention skyscrapers today, everyone will refer to the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which was built with the latest engineering technologies that facilitated the construction of skyscrapers amidst different geographical terrains. As for the oldest of them, which made the English explorer Freya Stark call it “Manhattan of the Desert, or as the German orientalist Hans Hilfertz calls it “Chicago of the Desert, it has existed since ancient times, specifically in eastern Yemen, known as Shabam