Rising like a spectre from the surrounding landscape is the eerie silhouette of Old Ma’rib. Originally built long before the 1st millennium BC and sitting on foundations that are vastly more ancient, it suffered much damage from bombs during the 1962 civil war, but for the layperson it’s the most romantic of the archaeological sites. A number of years ago the last family finally moved out and with their departure one of the oldest inhabited towns on earth effectively ceased to exist.
