Unlike modern kiln-fired bricks, these sun-dried versions preserved biological traces embedded during their creation, effectively transforming them into time capsules. A Breakthrough in Ancient DNA ...

Historical writings, including hieroglyphics, suggest that such bricks were molded using mud from the Tigris River. Taking a cue from ancient descriptions, even from as far afield as Egypt in the ...

Researchers have extracted ancient plant DNA from a 2,900-year-old clay brick. Experts at the University of Oxford collected samples from the artefact's inner core, which uncovered a "time capsule ...