Egyptian artifacts are therefore something special ... who denied the Israelites the straw for making bricks. The story, however, comes from Hebrew history; the exodus from Egypt is not recorded ...

a surprise discovery of mud brick was dated back to the New Kingdom dynasty (circa 1550 to 1070 B.C.), making this the oldest Egyptian settlement north of Lake Mariout And this was no small ...

preserving ecological artifacts from millennia ago." The key to this preservation, she explains, lies in the very methods of brick-making. Modern bricks, baked in high-temperature kilns ...