pisé

The Egyptians do not seem to have been acquainted with concrete proper, and unburnt bricks did not differ essentially from pisé.

But we have no evidence that the Egyptians could carry the art of construction to this point in pisé.

It would have been impossible to preserve them in the soft paste, the kind of pisé, we have described.

On the other hand if we assume that vaults of pisé were the chosen coverings, all the rest follows easily.

The crude brick of Nineveh and its neighbourhood was used while damp, and, when put in place, did not greatly differ from pisé.