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Construction Technology of 4 Periods in Ancient Civilization Cultural Background Relationship and Contribution of 4 periods in Ancient Civilization

...... Convergence of the forces of beauty, mathematics, nature and utility is transformative in the construction of the Ishtar Gate. Bedazzling with its sapphire jewel colour ceramics and glazed bricks, the Ishtar Gate now part of the permanent collection of the Berlin Pergamon Museum with the original location in the palace of Mespotamian, Nebuchadnezzar II, ruler of the Babylonian empire. Large and lavish in the decorated passageway construction, is made of the clay bricks constituted in wood forms prior to use, with few inclusions. The bricks seen throughout the construction of the Ancient Near East, are especially unique in their representation of the apex of Mesopotamian civilization, and the Babylonian qualities rendered through the application of ceramic brick tiles adhesive to the base relief of clay is glazed in colors ranging from blue to gold. The Gate includes intaglio and figurine bar reliefs with bull and dragon fantasies. The bricks and the reliefs were formed by the same method


1. Mud Brick
Mesopotamia did not have much timber but the area yet the climate boasted of near aquifer foliage, including palm leaves and reed instead. Prior to the innovation of fired pottery in the earliest epochs of the Neolithic era,