The Importance of Mud Bricks in the Ancient World

The walls of Babylon, however, were also sometimes listed as an ancient wonder in and of themselves. They were made of mud bricks and the gates faced with with with baked bricks that were glazed with a glass like blue glaze which was then detailed with yellow flora and fauna. Higgins goes into a lot more detail in the book about all of this and especially gets into the geology of the the region. But I think just what we've drawn it here already is how they serve as a necessary predecessor to baked brick technology"