The colonnaded main street runs for almost 800 meters and leads to a funerary temple. The Qala´at ibn Maan, also known as the Arab Castle, sits on a hilltop west of the site. Many structures have been carefully reconstructed as the shifting desert sands covered much of what was toppled during the quake. Those buried fared quite well, protected as they were under the wind blown layers, while those on the surface faced the furnace of the summer heat, the chill of the winter night and the abrasive blasts of howling sandstorms.