History of Brick

Brick is as old as civilization itself, dating back to ancient Mesopotamia around 500 BC. The thick clay and mud deposited by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers was reinforced with straw and shaped into brick then dried in the sun. As time progressed, bricks were glazed in a variety of colors

and used to adorn the facades of the ziggurat, or temple towers, built as stairways to and for the gods. Eventually, and most likely as a reaction to the realization that when wooden houses burned, the brick on the remaining chimneys had been strengthened, fire-hardened bricks began to replace adobe ones in India and the Middle East.