Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1920 — Ancient Bricks Well Made. [ARTICLE]

Ancient Bricks Well Made.

Of the durability of the ancient | bricks the remains of ancient walls I and courses that go back to prehlsI toric times bear witness. So strong I are the well-made sun-dried bricks that they >are found as a foundation many courses deep, beneath the ponderous stone work of ancient temples. The remains of the ancient town, now known as El Eab, still exist, with a wall constructed entirely of such bricks, still a solid mass. These bricks now, as in ancient days, are made with mud from the Nile and chaff, not straw, but the admixture was by no means always required, a* j the Nile mud differed considerably la, different places, * and In second-rate brickmaktng the mixture of “tibu” or dosing we temple group of Karnak which was made under the impulse of the government at the time, this chaff was always used.