Picture of Old Marib dam: only the sluices remain (Marib, Yemen)

Remains of the sluices of the Marib dam

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With the most important archeological site in Yemen and the remains of a huge dam in its vicinity, Marib is worth the effort it takes to reach it.
Once the capital of the kingdom of Saba, Marib declined together with the kingdom and has for centuries been the village it is still now. Since it was the base for Egyptian forces in a war in the 1960s, old Marib was largely destroyed although some people still live in it. New Marib was built and the old part, a few kilometres away, was largely neglected. The ruins of the temple of the Moon and the Sun are interesting to see, although they are not accessible to visitors, and surprisingly little maintenance is done on the work of excavators. You can only have a look from outside a barbed wire fence. In a way, this also adds to the very mystique of the ruins.
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