Traditional methods of grain storage in Wādī Hadramawt

Wādī Hadramawt extends some 900 km from the Ramlat al-Sabactayn sand sea westward to Sayhūt on the coast of the Arabian Sea, cutting a deep course through a high plateau (jawl) in the Hadramawt Governorate, Republic of Yemen. Multiple tributaries feed into the main wādī course: Wādī cAmd, Dawcan, al-cAyn, Bin cAlī, Shuhūh, Tārbah and cIdm from the south, and Wādī Haynan, Sirr, Nacām, Jacaymah, Madr, Thabī, and al-Khawn from the north. Wādī Hadramawt encompasses about two million hectares, of ...