sun-dried bricks
Clay blocks, air-cured
Sun-dried bricks are building blocks made from clay or mud mixed with straw or other binders, then shaped and left to dry in the sun rather than fired in a kiln.
Also called adobe, they have been used for millennia in arid climates: The ancient walls were built of sun-dried bricks.
They're durable in dry conditions but vulnerable to moisture.
- adobeSun-dried clay bricks
- clayMoldable earth for ceramics
- EgyptNortheastern African nation
- masonryBuilding with mortared blocks
- MesopotamiaTigris-Euphrates river region
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