It reached the roof this week, providing for an extended brick exterior wall along Smith Street that is critical to the stability of the original Palace. The tower will hold up a seriously damaged ...

including the multi-story Governor’s Palace and the Capitol. The clapboard homes and outbuildings all have brick fireplaces with massive chimneys. All the basement walls were brick, too.

The clay brick dates back 2,900 years, when it was used in the construction of the palace of Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II in the ancient city of Kalhu, known latterly as Nimrud. This precise ...

2,900 years ago, Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II declared a sun-baked mud brick as his. Can it now reconstruct the environment he lived in? This 2,900-year-old brick, fashioned from mud and baked ...

Naqsh-e Jahan Square, a masterpiece of Persian architecture and urban planning, dates back to the Safavid era and houses some of Iran’s most significant monuments, including the Shah Mosque, Sheikh ...