"Further, we have in the language and literature of Hebrew that Jeremiah mentioned a brick kiln next to the king’s palace in Egypt.…Archeology has found that only one Egyptian king before the Greco-Roman period used kiln fired bricks, …--------------------------------------------------------Ishinan: in Ancient Egypt, the technique of brick made in updraft kilns goes back to the 5th Dynasty Old kingdom (ca. 2465 - 2323 BC). Examples were commonly depicted in tomb scenes such as the case of the mastaba of Ty located at the nothern edge of the Saqqara necropolis. (see Épron et al. 1939: pl.71). The technique has survived in present-day Egyptian kilns.Ishinan Ishibashi
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