Read an in-depth review of Dar Tantora the House Hotel in AlUla, Saudi Arabia, and why it's worth staying at this hotel.

Traditional mud-brick houses that the people of northern Syria have built for thousands of years risk disappearing, as 12 years of war have emptied villages and left the buildings crumbling.

Not many examples of ancient Egyptian houses have survived because they were built a very long time ago. Houses would have been built of mud-bricks with floors made from earth. They had living ...