Sentences with phrase «mud brick houses»

Here in South Africa old farm houses are just becoming more and more scarcer so when we found our farm for sale with various old mud brick houses with their Oregon wooden windows and shutters, we jumped at it!

The mud brick houses of Anatolian villages are the inspiration for the exterior design of the Centre for Inclusive Education in Konya.

Not exact matches

When I arrived in Kabul, I found that my house was made of mud bricks and was surrounded by a tall mud wall to keep out intruders.

Like hundreds of other mounds in this region, Brak was built up over millennia as homeowners knocked down their decaying mud - brick houses and erected new structures on top of the remains.

Beginning some 9,500 years ago, in roughly 7500 B.C., and continuing for nearly two millennia, people came together at Çatalhöyük to build hundreds of tightly clustered mud - brick houses, burying their dead beneath the floors and adorning the walls with paintings, livestock skulls and plaster reliefs.

In June 2001, Wegner pulled a mud - covered brick from the ruins of a palatial house in Abydos, Egypt.

At Neolithic sites such as Çatalhöyük in Turkey, for example, archaeologists have found evidence that wild cattle bones were deposited in the foundations of mud - brick houses; the bones may be the remains of neighborhood feasts to celebrate the building of new dwellings.

Lokhara's houses are simple mud structures, mostly, with the odd brick construction.

At the start of World War II, Doha's 12,000 inhabitants lived in fly - infested, mud - brick houses and longed for the good old days of pearl diving.

On our way through Musanze village, my view of cobblestone streets and mud - brick houses transitions to that of farm fields with rows of plants filled with daisy - like flowers and eucalyptus trees.

Things radically shifted for the community in 1953 when the Communist government moved the community from its «diju,» mobile teepee - like structures, to state - constructed villages with mud - brick houses.