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[[Image:Concrete wall.jpg|right|thumb|An old brick wall in ''English bond'' laid with alternating courses of ''headers'' and ''stretchers'']]
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==History==
[[Image:Trier Basilika Electoral.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Roman empire|Roman]] Constantine [[Basilica]] in [[Trier]], [[Germany]], built in the 4th century with fired bricks as audience hall for [[Constantine I]]]]
The oldest discovered bricks, originally made from shaped mud and dating to 7500 B.C., were found in in the upper [[Tigris]] region and in southeast [[Anatolia]] close to [[Diyarbakir]]. Other more recent findings, dated between 7,000 and 6,395 B.C., come from [[Jericho]] and [[Catal Hüyük]]. The first sun-dried bricks were made in Mesopotamia (what is now Iraq), in the ancient city of [[Ur]] in about 4000 BC, although the arch used for drying the bricks was not actually found.<ref name="BriOnl"/>. <!--**Please See reference 'Elements of Civil Engineering = Mimi Das Saikia,' which supports the above claims**Being much more resistant to cold and moist weather conditions, brick enabled the construction of permanent buildings in regions where the harsher climate precluded the use of mud bricks. Bricks have the added warmth benefit of storing heat energy from the sun during the day and continuing to release heat after sunset. /hiding unsourced paragraph that does not go with sources I have found. Feel free to add it back when there are sources for NPOV. I will assume good faith that these are legitimate and verifiable info for now since I am no expert./-->
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