Mud-Brick

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" Mud-Brick "
Emery, Virginia L.

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	908365
Doc. No	:	LA7v84d6rh
Title & Author	:	Mud-Brick [Article]\ Emery, Virginia L.
Date	:	2009
Title of Periodical	:	UCLA
Abstract	:	Made from a mixture of silt, clay, sand, and straw formed into regular molded units, unfired mud-bricks were the primary construction material employed in ancient Egypt—being quite literally the most basic of building blocks for all levels of domestic structures, from simple one-room buildings to lavishly decorated palace complexes, as well as administrative and storage structures, and even early phases of temples. Modern methods of mud-brick fabrication accord with ancient evidence, suggesting that the production of unfired mud-brick has remained a stable technology through the millennia. Ancient evidence concerning mud-brick not only illuminates mud-brick production organization, but also highlights the symbolic significance of bricks in religious contexts, especially relating to birth and death.