The city was strategically founded on elevated ground to protect inhabitants from floods that often swept through the valley. Sun-baked mud bricks, composed of soil and straw, formed the primary ...

The Indus Valley was home to one of the world's first large civilisations. ... Most Indus buildings were made from mud bricks. Over time, people built new houses on top of old ones.

The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), or Harappan Civilization, as it came to be called, also had extensive terrestrial and maritime trade connections with, among others, Central Asia, Mesopotamia ...

Ceramic bricks originated in the Middle East, South Asia, and Europe and have been the foundation for the construction of important structures such as the ancient Indus Valley cities in Pakistan.

In the mid-1850s, a few years after the British annexation of the Punjab, some railway builders stumbled upon an ancient mound of terracotta bricks at Harappa in the valley of the Ravi.