Figure 3.3 Making Bricks in Egypt

Figure 3.3 Making Bricks in Egypt

This depiction of the brick-making process is from the tomb of Thut-mose lII of the 18th Egyptian dynasty, c. 1460 B.C.E. Laborers are shown processing the raw mud and forming the bricks used to construct walls and buildings.

Line drawing by Barry Bandstra after Davies (1943), plate 58.