STEM Eduion: Making in the Ancient World
· Mud or clay bricks were used to build temples, palaces, entrances to royal tombs, houses, walls, and pyramidal towers called ziggurats. The Mesopotamian ziggurats were built with a core of sun dried mud and an exterior covered with kilnbaked . Ziggurats were stepped temples. The Sumerians used bricks to create arched entrances to royal tombs. Sumerian arches were made by .