The Indus Civilization (Cambridge History of India, Supplementary Volume) c8.6

c8.6

¹ Whether the baking of bricks was a Harappan innovation, we cannot at present guess. Probably not. Certainly baked bricks were used, though not abundantly, in Sumer in the Early Dynastic period and probably as early as that of Jamdat Nasr, e.g. at Khafaje (H. Frankfort, *Or. Inst. Discoveries in Iraq*, 1933-4, p. 34); at Ur in Royal Tomb PG 789 (Woolley); and in Nineveh 4 (*Liverpool Annals*, xx, 1933, p. 134).