1, Fired clay, such as pottery and baked mud-brick or adobe, is virtually indestructible if well fired.

2, Ancient Egyptians used to build the mud-brick pyramid density than the sand around them is much greater, so from satellite images can be easily seen on temples, tombs and other architectural forms.

3, Left: The walled mud-brick city of Shibam in Yemen's southeastern Hadramout Valley.

4, The mud-brick houses that crumbled out of the rocky ridge composed villages that had existed for thousands of years.

5, Their mud-brick structures have not stood up too well against the eroding winds, drastic temperature extremes, and infrequent rain storms.

6, At the edge of Niamey, the capital, mud-brick compounds are full offood refugees from the north.

7, "Anything organic is disintegrated, but mud-brick or stone structures are usually still there, and you can excavate them with the right techniques, " Moeller said.

8, Mud-brick compounds at the edge of Niamey are filled withfood refugees from the north.

9, Beneath about 30 centimeters of sediments, they discovered mud-brick walls.

10, The words she croaks in her thatch-roofed, mud-brick farmhouse are precious.

11, The shape and materials of these mud-brick dwellings help them remain cool in summer and warm in winter.

12, They clambered over the remnants of schools,(http:///mud-brick.html) hotels and mud-brick homes looking for signs that some of the hundreds of people still missing might be alive.

13, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who inspected the area, said "close to all" the mud-brick homes in surrounding villages had collapsed in the temblor that also rattled parts of Iran and Armenia.

14, Here the medieval world and the contemporary Western world clash in a confusion of mud-brick houses and towering modern office buildings, of flashy cars and donkey-drawn carts.

15, Her family was separated shortly after raging floodwaters destroyed her modest, mud-brick home, and it has been well over a month since she last saw her three teenage daughters.

16, We reach the top of a small bluff where three mud-brick classrooms stand, their walls gouged with bullet holes, their roofs missing.

17, Several layers of slate-roofed houses rose up from the lip of the stream, and it was on their mud-brick walls that the slogans were chalked.

18, The earthen floor, beaten hard by countless feet, deadens the sound of footsteps, and the vaulted mud-brick walls and roof have hardly any sounds to echo .

19, Jike Nixi probably has the shortest walk of any student from her family's house to school: her parents live in a weathered mud-brick house only about 100 feet from the classroom building.

20, An exquisitely preserved and elaborately tattooed mummy of a young woman has been discovered deep inside a mud-brick pyramid in northern Peru, archaeologists from Peru and the U.S. announced today.

21, Next we venture back outside to the ruins of a mud-brick house, pulverized by bombs. I find fragments of an artillery shell, a prayer cap.