Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Old Walled City of Shibam' has mentioned 'Mud' in the following places:
Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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The houses of Shibam are all made out of mud brick, and about 500 of them are tower blocks, which rise 5 to 11 storeys high,[14] with each floor having one or two rooms. | WIKI |
[17] The city has some of the tallest mud buildings in the world, with some of them over 30xc2xa0m (98 feet) high,[18] thus being early high-rise apartment buildings. | WIKI |
In order to protect the buildings from rain and erosion, the walls must be routinely maintained by applying fresh layers of mud. | WIKI |
The tall cluster of sun-dried mud brick tower houses of the 16th century walled city of Shibam, which rises out of the cliff edge of Wadi Hadramaut has been described as a 'Manhattan' or 'Chicago' of the desert. | UNESCO |
The surrounding landscape of spate irrigated land which has been, and still is in agricultural use, constitutes an integrated economic system involving spate agriculture, mud generation and the use of mud for building construction that no longer exists elsewhere in the region. | UNESCO |
It represents the most accomplished example of traditional Hadrami urban architecture, both in the grid lay-out of its streets and squares, and in the visual impact of its form rising out of the flood plain of the wadi, due to the height of its mud brick tower houses. | UNESCO |