Development of South Arabia Civilization

Abstract

The Yemeni architecture specified with different architectural styles and the Yemeni Builders utilized the available building materials in their environment to construct great and high buildings. Before few years, our knowledge about the prehistory and protohistory
of Yemen was limited to a few Palaeolithic pieces found in Hadramawt and Lithic tools found near Sana’a, but from 1981 the plane of the development of South Arabia Civilization began clearly by discovering villages from the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron age. These discoveries full fill the missing link in South Arabia history. The archeological missions which worked in the Yemeni ancient cities were discovered a numerous architectural styles and patterns, most of their founders pointed that the construction of buildings erected by the surrounded materials available in local environment . The present study follows the rising of ancient Yemen architecture through considering the old Yemeni kingdom “ Sheba” ascended as a political kingdom in the first millennium B.C. and fashioned the basis of the rising of cities with different architectural styles.