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Credit: Yair Haklai / CC BY-SA 3.0 Greek homes were modest, constructed from stones, mud bricks wooden beams and clay tiles ... Trade flourished across the Mediterranean, connecting Greece with Egypt, ...

(Image: Courtesy D-Stanley, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons) You would probably associate Alexandria with the findings of the Egyptian civilisation ... Considered the largest mud brick structure in ...