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Excavation ongoing places tagged “mudbrick”

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works

Shunet el-Zebib, Abydos

Early Dynastic 2nd Dynasty ~2750 BCE · Early Egyptian Dynastic

2750 BCE 137 m mudbrick enclosure - Egypt's oldest monumental walls prototyping pyramid complex.

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🇩🇪 Germany · Hillfort

Heuneburg Celtic Hillfort

Late Hallstatt to Early La Tène (c.620–450 BCE) · Early Celtic (Hallstatt)

Principal Early Celtic princely seat on the Upper Danube, the Heuneburg is a 10 ha hillfort plateau above the Danube at Hundersingen with a Mediterranean-style mudbrick wall (c.600 BCE, unique north…