Mud-walled houses, Mopti, Mali, Africa

Mudbrick buildings of an ancient village with red canyons in backgrounds, Ziz Valley, Atlas mountains, Morocco, North Africa, Africa

Traditional mud brick houses in the form of beehives, Harran, Turkey, Asia Minor, Asia

The ruins of Berber troglodyte structures, Tataouine region, southern Tunisia

Ksar Ouled Soltane, a fortified granary, Tataouine district, southern Tunisia. The ksar is spread out over two courtyards, each of which has a perimeter of multi-story vaulted granary cellars, or ghorfas.

Old castle at foot of Atlas Mountains built with red mudbrick in the ksar of Ait Ben Haddou, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ouarzazate province, Morocco, North Africa, Africa

Ghorfas, storage rooms, Berber granary Qasr-al-Hadj, Nafusah Mountains, Libya

Colorful adobe Hotel Bait, Beit Bugshan, Khaylla, Khaylah village, Wadi Doan, Wadi Hadramaut, Yemen, Arabia, Southwest Asia

Himba women and children in a Himbadorf, Kaokoveld, Namibia, Africa

Himba women with children in front of a sleeping hut, Kaokoveld, Namibia, Africa

Colorful adobe Hotel Bait, Beit Bugshan, Khaylla, Khaylah village, Wadi Doan, Wadi Hadramaut, Yemen, Arabia, Southwest Asia

Residence of the Kasbah Ait Benhaddou, High Atlas, Ksar Ait Benhaddou, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Draa, Morocco, Africa

Tinerhir, oasis city, Souss-Massa-Daraa Region, Morocco, Africa

Adobe brick buildings on the central square, Na'in, Isfahan Province, Iran, Asia

Assembly room, Nakhl Fort or Husn Al Heem, fortress, historic mudbrick building, Al-Batinah province, Sultanate of Oman, Arabian Peninsula

Widmanhaus, town archive, Schwaebisch Hall, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany