The Benefits of Baking Bricks

Many of the great Babylonian structures of the day would have been made of baked bricks. And these would ultimately last so long that they would be reused long after the final fall of Babylon to build such cities as Baghdad. But you're not doing this with mud bricks at all, but baked bricks are just that much more durable. Yeah, maybe not a death penalty, but builders should be kept to a high standard.