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Mohamed Al-sayaghi / Reuters
A boy arranges dried mud blocks at a traditional brick manufacturing site in San'a, Yemen, Nov. 20, 2012. The bricks are made from clay and straw and widely used in the construction of houses due to its low cost.
Mohamed Al-sayaghi / Reuters
People work near a kiln at a traditional brick-manufacturing site in San'a, Yemen, Nov. 20.
Mohamed Al-sayaghi / Reuters
A worker adds water to clay mixed with straw at a traditional brick-manufacturing site in San'a, Yemen, Nov. 20.
Mohamed Al-sayaghi / Reuters
Workers carry dried mud bricks to a kiln at a traditional brick-manufacturing site in San'a, Yemen, Nov. 20.
Mohamed Al-sayaghi / Reuters
Workers stack dried mud bricks inside a kiln to be fired at a traditional brick manufacturing site in San'a, Yemen, Nov. 20.
Khaled Fazaa / AFP - Getty Images file
A file photo reveals the traditional mud-brick architecture used at the historical city of Shibam in eastern Yemen's Hadramaut province on Oct. 28, 2008.
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It's fascinating that this traditional method of building goes back thousands of years and natives were able to build quite high buildings multistory structures. Even in Egypt as well as other nations, bricks used for different purposes, not just builds have been found. The Bible mentions the Israelites in captivity in Egypt, being denied straw to make their bricks with.Once fired, such bricks make exceedingly strong material.The clay makes a particularly fine product in that part of the world in general.