The Origins of Building Bricks

Building bricks are as old as man’s desire to stop moving!  Of course, this makes perfect sense-after food, what mattered more than shelter?  And from this basic instinct to survive, an eleven-thousand-year-old tradition was born. Basic Beginnings and Early Improvements Archaeologists can date back the earliest known bricks to about 9000 BC.  These were hand-molded from basic mud and dried …