Everything about Mud Brick totally explained
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mudbrick is an unfired
brick made of
clay, or mud mixed with a binding material such as rice husks or straw.
In warm regions with very little timber available to fuel a
kiln, bricks were generally sun dried. This had the result that their useful lifespan is reduced to around thirty years. Once a building collapsed, new bricks would have to be made and the new structure rebuilt on top of the rubble of the decayed old brick. This phenomenon is the primary factor behind the mounds or
tells on which many ancient cities stand.
Adobe is a type of mudbrick also used today to save energy and is an environmentally safe way to insulate a house.
The
Great Mosque of Djenné, in central
Mali, is the world's largest mudbrick structure.
Ancient world
The earliest use of mudbricks was in the
Near East during the
aceramic Neolithic B period. The
Sumerians used
sun-dried bricks in their city construction; typically these bricks were flat on the bottom and curved on the top, called mudbricks. Some bricks were formed in a square
mould and rounded so that the middle was thicker than the ends.
In
Minoan Crete at the
Knossos site there's archaeological evidence that sun-dried bricks were used in the
Neolithic period (for example prior to 3400
BC).
Mudbricks were used to some extent in pre-Roman Egypt, and mudbrick use increased at the time of Roman influence.
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