Mudbrick

In the 20th century, the compressed earth block was developed using high pressure as a cheap and eco-friendly alternative to obtain non-fired bricks with more strength than the simpler air-dried mudbricks.

The history of mudbrick production and construction in the southern Levant may be dated as far back to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (e.g., PPNA Jericho).

In Minoan Crete, at the Knossos site, there is archaeological evidence that sun-dried bricks were used in the Neolithic period (prior to 3400 BCE).

[12] Sun dried mudbrick was the most common construction material employed in ancient Egypt during pharaonic times and were made in pretty much the same way for millennia.

[citation needed] The mudbricks were chemically suitable as fertilizer, leading to the destruction of many ancient Egyptian ruins, such as at Edfu.

It, like much of Sahelian architecture, is built with a mudbrick called Banco,[17] a recipe of mud and grain husks, fermented, and either formed into bricks or applied on surfaces as a plaster like paste in broad strokes.

New, unlaid mudbricks in the Jordan Valley , West Bank Palestine , (2011)
Mudbrick was used for the construction of Elamite ziggurats —some of the world's largest and oldest constructions. Choqa Zanbil , a 13th-century BCE ziggurat in Iran , is similarly constructed from clay bricks combined with burnt bricks. [ 1 ]
Mud-brick stamped with seal impression of raised relief of the Treasury of the Vizier. From Lahun, Fayum, Egypt. 12th Dynasty. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London
Traditional brickyard on Tuti Island in Sudan .
The Grand Mosque of Djenné as reconstructed in 1907 is the largest mudbrick structure in the world.