| 单词 | mud-brick |
| 例句 | The Mehtas’ house was larger than ours, but some of the mud-brick walls were tumbled, and a part of the house had no roof. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Some hang limp from laundry lines as thin and worn as thread; others are nailed clumsily to the doors of modest mud-brick homes not so unlike my own. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It was autumn, and Laila could make out people in bright tunics on the roofs of mud-brick dwellings laying out the harvest to dry. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The soldiers come after me, but I’ve grown up among the squat, mud-brick houses of the Quarter, and I lose my pursuers quickly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The mud-brick walls of the house became even thinner. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z No rattling had filled its mud-brick walls; instead, it had been filled with the sounds of people coughing, and spewing, and moaning in pain. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The crooked collection of mud-brick huts in the beastkeepers’ quarters seemed so much smaller in the daytime. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In silence, she and Mama whisked by mud-brick huts crammed along the Night Zoos edge; other beastkeepers were getting ready too. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Here and there are the traditional khaki-colored mud-brick huts of the Chinese peasantry. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The further we get into Serra, the more familiar the streets become, until we climb over a low section of mud-brick wall and into the Quarter. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z As my eyes grew accustomed to the dim room, I noticed with amazement that pinned onto the mud-brick walls was an endless array of butterflies and bugs. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z She learned Arabic and lived in mud-brick homes. A Renewed Spotlight on Two Women Artists 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z A morning bus carried me across scraggly plains dotted with skeletal trees and mud-brick shantytowns. Morocco, From Coast to Desert 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z He found identical cones in the mud-brick wall of a temple in Tello. British Museum to Return Looted Antiquities to Iraq 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z In the opener, the team heads to Egypt to learn how the pyramids evolved from simple mud-brick structures to ancient phenomena. TV highlights: ‘Drunk History’ and ‘Nathan For You’ return to Comedy Central He began with a meticulous study of old Arab settlements, including the ancient citadel of Aleppo in Syria and the mud-brick apartment towers of Shibam in Yemen, which date from the 16th century. Critic?s Notebook: In Arabian Desert, a Sustainable City Rises, Walled and Lofty 2010-09-25T21:09:00Z The Amiri Palace, a traditional mud-brick structure built for the royal family in the 1920s, breaks in among the pavilions near the museum’s main entry, where it serves as a visual anchor. Architecture Review: Celebrating the Delicate Beauty of the Desert Landscape 2010-03-22T22:46:00Z While the humble, mud-brick village that once surrounded its temple is long gone, stones from the temple still stand. Malta: A citadel of many cultures in the middle of the Mediterranean 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z We trudged past the darkened windows of mud-brick homes up a long hill to Urgain’s house, where we collapsed in a sweaty, exhausted, grinning heap on his kitchen floor. Explorer: A Himalayan Highway on the Frozen Zanskar River 2011-11-23T19:04:05Z Al-Qaida-linked rebels occupied the fabled Saharan city of Timbuktu in 2012 and enforced a strict interpretation of Islamic law under which they destroyed the historic mud-brick tombs they considered idolatrous. ICC judges cut Muslim radical’s sentence in Timbuktu case 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z But this one is in better condition than most, because it was preserved by the collapsed mud-brick walls of the home it once decorated. Art in Review: ?THE ROMAN MOSAIC From Lod, Israel? 2010-12-23T22:15:17Z A wall in the first gallery is dominated by a big photograph of a mud-brick primary school shaded by a cluster of trees in an otherwise barren landscape in Burkina Faso. Architecture Review: Real-Life Design: Erecting Solutions to Social Problems 2010-10-14T22:00:00Z Authorities demolished mud-brick homes on the outskirts of the capital of Islamabad earlier this week to force Afghans to leave the area. Aid agencies warn of chaotic and desperate scenes among Afghans returning from Pakistan 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z They would have been made of stone and mud-brick or entirely of the latter, so eventually, these non-permanent structures would have melted into the ground. Cold War spy satellite imagery reveals Ancient Roman forts 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z The initial quake, numerous aftershocks and a third 6.3-magnitude quake on Wednesday flattened villages, destroying hundreds of mud-brick homes that could not withstand such force. World Food Program appeals for $19 million to provide emergency food in quake-hit Afghanistan 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z The initial quake, numerous aftershocks and a second 6.3-magnitude quake on Wednesday flattened villages, destroying hundreds of mud-brick homes that could not withstand such force. Powerful earthquake shakes west Afghanistan a week after devastating quakes hit same region 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z The initial quake, numerous aftershocks and a second 6.3-magnitude quake on Wednesday flattened entire villages, destroying hundreds of mud-brick homes that could not withstand such force. More than 90% of people killed by western Afghanistan quake were women and children, UN says 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z Also, an earthquake hit eastern Afghanistan in June 2022, striking a rugged, mountainous region, wiped out stone and mud-brick homes and killed at least 1,000 people. Senior Taliban officials visit villages struck by earthquake that killed at least 2,000 people 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z In June 2022, a powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan, flattening stone and mud-brick homes. Two 6.3 magnitude earthquakes kill at least 15 and injure nearly 40 others in western Afghanistan 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z The mud-brick building collapsed with about 40 people inside, officials said. Death toll from Pakistan bombing rises to 54 as suspicion falls on local Islamic State group chapter 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z He said the mud-brick mosque collapsed because of the impact of the blast and rescuers were pulling worshippers from the rubble. Dozens dead after blast in southwestern Pakistan at a rally celebrating birthday of Islam’s prophet 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Residents of one village, Kettou, demolished by the quake luckily all survived thanks to a wedding celebration for which they had left their stone and mud-brick homes to enjoy traditional music in an outdoor courtyard. Morocco quake: death toll rises to 2,901 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z It struck on Friday night, ruining traditional buildings across the High Atlas and collapsing mud-brick and stone houses in many villages seen by Reuters. Morocco earthquake damages historic mountain mosque 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z A deffufa is a form of mud-brick architecture specific to Nubia. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Behind it is a small village, whose mud-brick dwellings are home to about 80 families. In a Deadly Mountain Pass, a Tiny Hotel Is a Lifeline 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z Last year in southeastern Afghanistan, a 6.1 magnitude quake struck a rugged, mountainous region, flattening stone and mud-brick homes. 11 killed as strong earthquake rattles Pakistan, Afghanistan 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z The limestone shrine includes a two-layer platform and a mud-brick basin from the Byzantine era. Egypt archaeology: Dig unearths smiling mini-sphinx which may represent Claudius 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Many mud-brick houses and farm sheds were still in ruins. Pakistani villages recover slowly from epic floods 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Archaeologists have uncovered a large hall supported by pilasters composed of mud-brick at Mohenjo-Daro, as well as a multistory residence built around an open courtyard. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The district center in Qadis is home to just 4,000 or so families, living in low, mud-brick homes webbed by dirt alleys. Dying Children and Frozen Flocks in Afghanistan’s Bitter Winter of Crisis 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z The street is bordered by curved mud-brick walls that were parts of buildings that housed workshops that were used during Tutankhamun’s reign for making jewelry, leather sandals, clothing, amulets, statues and mud bricks. King Tut Mysteries Endure 100 Years After Discovery 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Beginning in the 1930s, the Soviets sent architects to transform its scattering of mud-brick structures into a metropolis whose official name, for decades, would be Stalinabad. The Tajik Artisans Guarding the Country’s Cultural Legacy 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Others surveyed wrecked mud-brick or shoddy cinder-block homes with collapsed walls and roofs. For Pakistan flood victims, waters hit swiftly and brutally 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Before the pyramids, tombs and other architectural features were built of mud-brick and called mastabas. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The mud-brick buildings that once made up the heart of the main bazaar — stalls where men sold vegetables, soft drinks and home goods — are reduced to piles of dirt. A year of peace in one of Afghanistan’s deadliest provinces The job was one of the few available to him in the smattering of tiny communities of mud-brick houses that line the edge of the forest here. How Demand for Twigs Is Bringing Down a Rainforest 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z The quake struck a remote, deeply impoverished region of small towns and villages tucked among rough mountains near the Pakistani border, collapsing stone and mud-brick homes and in some cases killing entire families. Pakistan plane carrying aid joins Afghan quake relief effort 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z In Azor Kalai, one of the first villages in the earthquake zone, partly destroyed mud-brick houses were scattered across the hillside — their walls collapsed and ceilings lying in pieces. In Afghan Quake: ‘I Did Not Expect to Survive’ 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z While modern buildings withstand magnitude 6 earthquakes elsewhere, Afghanistan’s mud-brick homes and landslide-prone mountains make such quakes more dangerous. Afghans bury dead, dig for survivors after quake kills 1,000 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Outside the mud-brick walls surrounding Ur, ox-driven plows cultivate the fields. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the U.N. statement, hundreds of mud-brick houses that were destroyed were already vulnerable due to heavy heavy rains in the country. UN: Afghan quake death toll reaches 26, including children 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Lonesome billboards and mud-brick houses that seem centuries-old emerge before we cross into Wardak province, where the highway was targeted numerous times by Taliban militants over the years. Along Afghanistan’s ‘highway of death,’ the bombs are gone but suffering has deepened Once the blasting starts, the walls of mud-brick homes will crack. A Power Struggle Over Cobalt Rattles the Clean Energy Revolution 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z The mud-brick buildings are empty, just husks of the human life that became impossible on this land. Climate change is turning the cradle of civilization into a grave The city was partially built on mud-brick platforms to protect it from flooding. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Wedged between apartment buildings and a multilane thoroughfare, the camp is the size of a city block — a patchwork of squat mud-brick houses with narrow, muddy lanes and open sewers. As Need in Afghanistan Grows Dire, Aid Groups Plead for Help 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Her three-year-old daughter, Nilofar, already says she wants to be an engineer; her multi-coloured plastic building blocks sit in the corner of a mud-brick room, a late summer sun streams through the windows. 'We must continue': In Kabul, Afghans adjust to a new and uncertain fate 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z He said mud-brick shops collapsed in the explosion, causing casualties. Gas cylinder blast at roadside market kills 8 in Pakistan 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z Later that year, they destroyed the mud-brick mausoleums that covered saints' tombs, condemning them as totems of idolatry. World Digest: March 30, 2021 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z On the exterior of the ziggurat, a flight of perhaps 100 mud-brick stairs leads to the top. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Later that year the jihadists used pickaxes to destroy the mud-brick mausoleums that covered the saints’ tombs, condemning the buildings as totems of idolatry. ICC holds reparations ceremony for Timbuktu mausoleums 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Razia’s family had just finished breakfast when two white phosphorus shells crashed into their mud-brick home in Afghanistan’s northeastern Kapisa province. Human toll of incendiary weapons documented in new report 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z A 19th-Century sultan's palace in Yemen that is one of the world's largest mud-brick structures is at risk of collapse after years of neglect and rain damage. Yemen war: Mud-brick Seiyun Palace 'at risk of collapse' 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Next, Holt was ordered to do a sweep of the exterior of an 8-foot-tall mud-brick wall surrounding the compound and several farm trailers parked along the perimeter. Veteran reunited with military working dog that saved his life 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Other remains include the later remains of mud-brick building foundations and found mud-brick burials. Dozens of ancient Egyptian skeletons found in rare clay coffins buried 6,000 years ago 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The Emirates were desperately poor then, and even the richest families lived in mud-brick huts. Mohammed bin Zayed’s Dark Vision of the Middle East’s Future 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Amid the clusters of shabby mud-brick homes are houses made of cement, some two stories tall, painted and surrounded by cement walls. Left Behind by Migrant Husbands, Women Break the Rules and Go to Work 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Nooran Shah, a farmer who lives near where two of the bombs fell, told the Guardian the doors of his mud-brick house were blown off by the explosion. Kashmir's fog of war: how conflicting accounts benefit both sides 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, says the tombs were built in mud-brick with different architectural styles. Archaeologists find Rome-era tombs in Egypt’s Western Desert 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Its residents are mostly illiterate and live in mud-brick homes. An unnatural disaster 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z “All these are dreams for now,” Lu said as he drove amid mud-brick homes and toilets that were little more than pits. Yoga is making this old Chinese village young again 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z They needed the high mud-brick walls of their compound to protect themselves and their sheep, goats, and donkeys from marauding packs of wolves. What it means to be an American this Fourth of July 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z “All these are dreams for now,” Mr. Lu said as he drove amid mud-brick homes and toilets that were little more than pits. In a Chinese Village, Elderly Farmers Are Now Yogis 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z The troops cleared mud-brick compounds and found many homemade explosive booby traps. U.S., Afghan Forces Launch Major Offensive Against Islamic State 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Here they live in tarpaulin shelters and mud-brick huts on a patch of scrub where cows once grazed. Refugees need not be a burden, if they are allowed to work 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Troops from Pakistan’s Tochi Scouts, the Frontier Corps unit guarding the North Waziristan line, man small mud-brick outposts spaced evenly along the border fence. Donald Trump border wall calls echo in Pakistan 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z Bombed-out plots of land that once housed local businesses lay in tatters, as do mud-brick compounds that housed generations of Waziri families. Pakistan ousts terrorists, rebuilds border region 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z The arena’s steel-and-mesh exterior resembles the fronds of Iraq’s national tree — the date palm — and its futuristic facade dominates an urban landscape populated with crumbling, low-slung mud-brick homes. Iraq and Saudi Arabia Come Together Just for Kicks 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Zara's home is a big mud-brick building in a large compound close to the school. 'Daughters of poor men': Heartbreak in Nigeria 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z In M'mele village, a mud-brick house was destroyed by heavy rainfall and flooding three years ago. 'I miss school to fetch clean water' 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z The cultural center was housed in a simple building surrounded by mud-brick homes in the Shiite-dominated neighborhood of Dasht-e-Barchi, home to some of Kabul’s poorest residents. Islamic State kills 41 in attack on Afghan cultural center 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Special Forces operate from two outposts about 1,000 yards apart, both sandbagged mud-brick buildings that look out onto Islamic State turf, about 7 miles from snow-covered peaks in Pakistan. In One Corner of Afghanistan, America Is Beating Islamic State 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z The quake, which happened near the boundary of the Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates, struck at a depth of about 20 kilometres — shallow enough to cause very strong ground shaking and topple mud-brick buildings. New Delhi smog, death-sentence appeal and a porpoise setback On a small rise less than 20 miles south of Tbilisi, Georgia, a clutch of round, mud-brick houses rises from a green, fertile river valley. Oldest Evidence of Winemaking Discovered at 8,000-Year-Old Village 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z The sites offered a glimpse into a neolithic culture characterised by circular mud-brick homes, tools made of stone and bone and the farming of cattle, pigs, wheat and barley. Evidence of world's earliest winemaking uncovered by archaeologists 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z In their place is smoothed mud ground and small mud-brick houses with thatched roofs. Starting a new life with nothing but a wild plot of land 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z They walked through the night and stopped at a mud-brick house. The enduring story of the American aviator lost in China after World War II: Here's where he may have spent the last years of his life 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Massa lives at the top of an extinct volcano that straddles the border between Uganda and Kenya, in a small mud-brick house at the center of a grove of coffee trees. Drying Climate Threatens Africa’s Coffee, But Hope Remains 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Settle into your home's coziest nook with The Bucket List: 1000 Adventures Big & Small and take in a Moroccan sunrise in Aït-Benhaddou, a mud-brick town at the foot of the High Atlas Mountains. These 16 Coffee Table Books Are All You Need for a Staycation 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z As the truck eases down one of Tancitaro’s narrow roads it passes hundred-year-old mud-brick houses, as well as a few old log cabins built in a style first introduced a century ago by Italian immigrants. The avocado police: how Tancitaro, Mexico took the law into its own hands 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Their new home was a sand-coloured villa surrounded by a low mud-brick wall. Osama bin Laden’s family on the run: ‘I never stopped praying our lives might return to normal’ 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z Agadez has always been a transit point, a maze of mud-brick enclosures in which to eat and rest and exchange cargo before setting off for the next outpost. The Desperate Journey of a Trafficked Girl 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Hamani’s life is in many ways illustrative for women in rural Niger, where she lives in a small village of mud-brick houses lining sand-dust roads. Why have four children when you could have seven? Family planning in Niger 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Around 1 a.m., the combined team of roughly two dozen U.S. and Emirati commandos arrived in Yaklaa, a collection of mud-brick houses scattered among hilly terrain and bordered by a minefield. A raid in remote Yemen and a SEAL’s death still reverberate for Trump 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z On their patrols through the sandy side streets of Gao, an ancient city along the Niger River lined with mud-brick houses, U.N. convoys are greeted by throngs of residents. The world’s most dangerous U.N. peacekeeping mission faces al-Qaeda 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z The first mud-brick homes were going up but most people were living in tents, many improvised from sheets. Afghanistan Struggles to Absorb Wave of Returnees From Pakistan 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z The next day, I met with Alber at his home, a mud-brick building in a neighborhood that was the site of frequent raids. The Desperate Journey of a Trafficked Girl 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z They live in mud-brick homes with roofs made of sheets of corrugated metal weighed down with rocks against the stiff winds. Indigenous people are left poor as tech world takes lithium from under their feet 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z As his family’s mud-brick house shook and the windows shattered, he huddled in the living room with his wife and five young children. ‘Why is the world so quiet?’ Yemen suffers its own cruel losses, far from Aleppo. 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z A decade later, even children have cellphones, and villagers who sold farmland to developers are tearing down their mud-brick dwellings in favor of multistory homes with balconies and deluxe kitchens. A gender sensitivity class in India was going well, until someone died of poison 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z And the militants bulldozed Nimrud’s ziggurat, the mud-brick base of a once-soaring ancient temple, reducing it to a nondescript pile of dirt. Islamic State is driven from ancient Nimrud, where destruction is ‘worse than we thought’ 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Elsewhere in Africa, it is becoming more and more common to see villagers connecting cellphones to single solar panels outside mud-brick homes. Windmills or Reactor Cores? Inside South Africa’s Energy Clash 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z At the local primary school, teacher Maria Donigian said she has noticed new wooden windows and doors on some of the mud-brick homes in Olaroz Chico. Indigenous people are left poor as tech world takes lithium from under their feet 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z A fleet of boats appears on the whitewashed wall of a mud-brick building at Abydos. Ancient Royal Boat Tomb Uncovered in Egypt Historic mud-brick houses in its walled old city are pounded to dust. Home of Yemen's rebels struggles after strikes' devastation 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Hundreds of Yemenis fleeing war are now living in tents and mud-brick shelters scattered across a cornfield, where they buried the remains of loved ones they carried with them when they escaped. UN announces agreement on 72-hour Yemen cease-fire 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Rebels affiliated with al-Qaeda occupied the fabled Saharan city of Timbuktu in 2012 and enforced a strict interpretation of Islamic law that included the destruction of the historic mud-brick tombs they considered idolatrous. Islamist guilty of war crime in destruction of historic Timbuktu tombs 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Al-Qaida-linked rebels occupied the fabled Saharan city of Timbuktu in 2012 and enforced a strict interpretation of Islamic law that included destruction of the historic mud-brick tombs they considered idolatrous. Muslim Radical Guilty of War Crime for Desecration of Mausoleums 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z All lay in mud-brick structures arrayed outside the funerary complex of a 1st-dynasty king. Ancient Royal Boat Tomb Uncovered in Egypt Al Mahdi led pickax-wielding rebels who wrecked the simple mud-brick mausoleums covering the saints’ tombs in June and July 2012 in the famed city in the Saharan nation of Mali. Lawyer: Timbuktu residents felt shame after sites destroyed 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Just before midnight they moved into a mud-brick compound, kneeling behind walls. Afghan War Rules Leave U.S. Troops Wondering When It’s OK to Shoot 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Afghan Special Forces teams often travel undercover, speeding through clusters of Taliban-controlled mud-brick villages. In Afghanistan, a Secret Plan Pays Off the Taliban 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Surrounding the sanctuaries were mud-brick houses several storeys high, some with dovecotes on their roofs. Drowned worlds: Egypt's lost cities 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Arranged like a fleet moored at a wharf, they lie in mud-brick graves beside a 1st-dynasty king’s funerary enclosure at Abydos. Ancient Royal Boat Tomb Uncovered in Egypt She gestures to the neat mud-brick hut we're sitting next to, with corrugated tin shutters on the windows and a bright cloth covering the doorway. A country where toilets are a sign of hope - BBC News 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z After dark, we arrived at a settlement of mud-brick huts in the jungle. General Butt Naked, the Repentant Warlord 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z ISTANBUL, Turkey — Al Gharra is a mud-brick village built on hard, flat Syrian desert and populated by the descendants of Bedouin. “My mother and aunt were killed. Everyone but me was killed” 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z At Madama, an oasis about 50 miles south of Libya, a mud-brick fort built by the French in 1931 guards Niger’s northern desert approaches. Jihadists Deepen Collaboration in North Africa 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z I saw ghost village after ghost village where mud-brick houses had been set on fire, their tin roofs pulled off, and many of the buildings were ridden with bullets. Boko Haram battle: On combat patrol with Nigeria’s army - BBC News 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z The village looked like a mix of mud-brick and cinder-block houses haphazardly thrown together. Inside the Killing of An American Terrorist 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z My most memorable encounter was in the bedroom of my mud-brick, thatch-roofed hut one moonlit night. Seán Hemingway on the Best Safari Trophy He Ever Took Home 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z No one saw two Taliban armed with grenade launchers standing on a mud-brick turret well within range of the descending chopper. Obama stonewalls SEAL Team 6 Extortion 17 helicopter crash probe, watchdog says 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z A decade ago, locals transported their goods and money on the backs of camels and donkeys between mud-brick homes lighted by candles. Agadez traffickers profit from movement through Niger to Libya 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z “The woman here died of stomach cancer,” she says, nodding at a mud-brick home on the right. Poisoned legacy 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z After the city lay abandoned for centuries, families moved in in the mid-1900s and built new mud-brick homes. Saudis Turn Birthplace of Wahhabism Ideology Into Tourist Spot 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z “If I ever go to Europe, I will fly,” said the mother of two, her hair in a net, as she sat in a courtyard in front of a low-slung, red mud-brick building. African migrants risk all in Sahara to reach Europe 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z They lived in a formidable mud-brick abode which featured built-in shooting vantage points – relics of an earlier time of warfare between white settlers on the frontier and the dispossessed Indigenous people of south-west Queensland. Scorched earth: at the epicentre of the Queensland drought, a family sells the last of their cattle 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Freya Stark dubbed the interior city of Shibam the “Manhattan of the Desert” because of its mud-brick skyscrapers that rise to eleven stories. Yemen Then and Now: The Sad Chronicle of a Failed State 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Images of Sindhupalchowk, and descriptions by people who had seen it, portrayed it as thoroughly destroyed, its simple mud-brick houses flattened, heaps of rubble covering human corpses and livestock, and dazed wounded. Rescuers in Nepal finding total devastation in remote villages 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Half-naked barefoot children play in dusty, unpaved alleys between mud-brick houses. In Sudan, poverty, heavy security grip under longtime leader 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z She is greeted cordially by Veronica's parents outside their mud-brick house. Saving girls from the 'cutting season' 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Salim al-Jabouri, who lives just across the Tigris River from Nimrud, a sprawling, ancient mud-brick city, recalled being startled to see bulldozers and other construction vehicles entering the site recently. Jihadists May Have Wrecked an Ancient Iraqi Site 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z Crying "Allahu akbar" or God is Great into the pre-dawn darkness, they opened fire indiscriminately and burned scores of mud-brick houses with gasoline, killing at least eight civilians and two security officers. Lakeside Communities in Chad Live in Fear of Boko Haram 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z His grandfather’s cousin’s son lives in a mud-brick home. Relatives await word on Assyrians abducted by Islamic State in Syria 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z "The first reason is the scarcity of the trees that people ordinarily cut to build the roofs of their mud-brick houses." For green, comfortable homes, Mali turns to mud 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The scene was a familiar lineup of charred mud-brick walls and twisted corrugated iron, the militants’ calling card in this region. A Nigerian City, Long Under Siege, Survives an Audacious Militant Assault 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z The village of 55 mud-brick homes with thatched roofs, several hours northeast of the capital, Monrovia, is so remote that health officials didn’t learn of the outbreak until a month after it started. The perilous trek of a 4-year-old Liberian suspected of having Ebola 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z In spring this year, two men rang Nader's doorbell so hard they pushed it half way through the wall of his mud-brick house. Left to the mercy of the Taliban 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z At a mosque on the edge of a town of mud-brick homes, roughly 200 men were waiting to receive him. As Bombing Toll Rises, Afghan Villagers Direct Anger at Government 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Around 100 mud-brick homes were partly or totally destroyed and 100 roads, including six national highways, were cut off in the floods, officials said. Morocco hit by deadly flash floods 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z His account was borne out by videos he had filmed showing villagers running between mud-brick homes toward the helicopter, frantic to board it. Besieged Iraqi town buoyed by airstrikes, launch of offensive against militants The militia fighters were hunting for Muslims when they found the father and son at their home in this mud-brick town. Setting Times stories to music: From Searchers to Jagwar Ma 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z “The Taliban once owned this village, but now it is ours,” said Amadullah, a local police commander, extending his right arm toward a group of mud-brick homes. In Taliban heartland where U.S. once fought, Afghan forces triumph — for now Hokshe is a cluster of mud-brick homes, flanked by fields of corn, sitting high up in the hills that circle Kathmandu. Nepal's Impoverished Kidney Village, Where Organs Come Cheap 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Its mud-brick houses, dirt alleys and concrete office blocks project little in the way of strength or sway. After years off-stage, Iraq's Sistani takes charge 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Timbuktu today is a sleepy collection of mud-brick houses that sits low in the ever-tightening embrace of the Sahara. The book rustlers of Timbuktu: how Mali's ancient manuscripts were saved 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z The village of Markha itself is but a few dozen beige mud-brick homes, sitting on a slight promontory, almost invisible against the brown backdrop. Markha Valley Journal: Hikers Spread Democracy in India 2014-05-13T02:01:33Z Though its mud-brick houses attest to its poverty, the town has long been a cosmopolitan crossroads for traders and a starting point for the northward journey to Chad and Cameroon. Angry Muslims in Central African Republic call for partition 2014-04-24T18:06:23Z Kashgar, for instance, is being refashioned from a warren of mud-brick buildings into a Chinese city with high-rises and gleaming shopping malls. Terror Attack in China Blamed on Separatist Muslim Uighurs 2014-03-02T12:35:19Z "The parasite lives in mud-brick walls typical of those from lower social classes, not in stone houses or better equipped, cleaner surroundings," he told BBC News. Mysterious mummy ritually sacrificed 2014-02-27T10:32:58Z The rest of the city is dirt-poor, with unpaved streets and ramshackle mud-brick homes. Special Report: Areva and Niger's uranium fight 2014-02-05T11:58:06Z A few scavengers troll a neighborhood of burned mud-brick homes for nails and metal roofing. Ghost Town Is Mute Witness to Central African Violence 2014-01-19T20:43:03Z Her tiny mud-brick house boasts such modern conveniences as a computer bought with a loan from relatives, while arranged neatly on the kitchen window sill are her teenage daughter’s cosmetics. Social entrepreneurship in India: Cut from a different cloth 2013-09-12T16:45:58Z In the dirt alleyways of mud-brick houses, residents speak of being picked up at random, beaten and held for ransom by the Seleka, and sometimes of lucky escapes. Violent and Chaotic, Central African Republic Lurches Toward a Crisis 2013-08-07T00:57:26Z Shaheen’s sewers are concrete trenches about a foot deep, into which wastewater, rendered milky white by dish soap, flows from pipes exiting mud-brick houses. Pakistan Fights for Ground in War on Polio 2013-07-21T21:38:48Z But with their mud-brick houses and unpaved roads, the villages neighboring the plant look as poor as the rest of Sudan. Sudan dreams of becoming global sugar player 2013-05-22T15:53:14Z The mud-brick houses, and even reinforced concrete buildings near the fault-break, stood no chance and were damaged immediately, many also collapsing. Sichuan 2008: A disaster on an immense scale 2013-05-09T00:36:41Z For five days he hid, scavenging fruits in mangrove swamps before "returning to see what's left of Baga," he said, as he gestured towards the blackened husk of his mud-brick house. Nigeria pledges justice as pressure over killings grows 2013-05-01T16:20:25Z Wednesday saw steady rain across most of Afghanistan, which would have weakened the traditional mud-brick homes many Afghans live in, said the deputy chief of Afghanistan's National Disaster Management Authority. Afghanistan quake kills at least four, wounds 69 2013-04-24T13:19:07Z But we saw family after family sitting amid the ruins of their mud-brick houses under open skies with no shelter. The remote corner of Pakistan flattened by an earthquake 2013-04-19T20:01:02Z Finally, they spot a cluster of mud-brick huts, known to the Fulani nomads who live there as a ruga. Public health: Polio's moving target 2013-04-17T17:21:00.893Z The once nomadic Nabataeans lived in mud-brick dwellings long washed away, but they housed their dead in elaborate mausoleums carved from these sandstone monoliths. Travel: The World's Best-Kept Secrets 2013-03-14T12:15:00Z Since Sunday's attack, the French and their African allies have been busy hunting down rebel suspects and dismantling bomb-making factories in the sprawling mud-brick Saharan town in a counter-insurgency operation that is tying them down. In Mali town, counter-insurgency task ties down French 2013-02-14T20:25:11Z Late that night, the moon illuminated Timbuktu’s mud-brick roofs as paratroopers silently dropped into the desert, north of the city. ‘I Have So Many Songs to Write’ 2013-02-05T05:00:00Z He and his neighbours all live in mud-brick houses. China's coal conundrum as smog worsens 2013-01-31T03:41:53Z Malian soldiers combed through the dusty alleys and mud-brick homes of Gao and Timbuktu. Mali secures recaptured towns, donors pledge funds 2013-01-30T00:23:03Z Malian government soldiers were combing through the Niger River towns and their neighborhoods of dusty alleys and mud-brick homes. Malian troops uncover rebel arms caches in recaptured towns 2013-01-29T15:52:39Z DIABALY, Mali — Twisted carcasses of incinerated vehicles tucked between Diabaly’s mud-brick houses were the first signs of the devastating French strikes in northern Mali. Malians want the French to stay 2013-01-23T21:42:00Z In the central Malian town of Diabaly, seized by Islamist fighters on Monday, the wreckage of the Islamists' charred pick-up trucks lay abandoned among the mud-brick buildings, television images showed. French troops advance in Mali as Islamists melt away 2013-01-21T09:56:04Z Television showed the wreckage of the Islamists' white pick-up trucks, some mounted with heavy machine guns, lying charred and twisted among the mud-brick buildings of the village of Diabaly. French troops inch north in Mali as Islamists melt away 2013-01-20T17:36:36Z Three months into his deployment, Starks, in command of an eight-wheeled Stryker, chased insurgents to a mud-brick compound where they then began to fire on his vehicle. Troubled veterans left without health-care benefits 2012-08-12T01:14:04Z The military response focused on Shaikh Zuwaid, a mud-brick settlement that relies heavily on profits from smuggling goods and people through tunnels into Gaza since the Palestinian territory was cut off from Israel. Egypt hits militants in Sinai, to Israeli approval 2012-08-08T15:04:20Z There were over 1,000 in Wednesday’s procession, joining more than 90,000 who have already fled through this mud-brick village, the closest haven to the armed free fall on the other side. Fear Stalks Mali’s Refugees Despite Escape to Mauritania 2012-07-19T00:44:40Z Children as young as five years-old work in Cairo's pottery "factories", which are often nothing more than mud-brick hovels. Suffer the Children: Young Laborers Around the World 2012-06-13T02:05:00Z And the look of the ancient mud-brick town is changing. In Timbuktu, Mali Rebels and Islamists Impose Harsh Rule 2012-06-02T19:14:33Z The techies are able to set up real-time instruction sessions, where Taliban master bombmakers demonstrate their techniques via webcam as students watch from mud-brick houses hundreds of miles away. The Taliban’s New Strategy 2012-05-28T05:00:00Z Little is known so far about Sergeant Bales’s deployment to Panjwai, a rural stretch of grape fields and mud-brick villages outside the city of Kandahar, the province’s capital. Suspect?s Deployments Put Focus on War Strains 2012-03-17T19:39:40Z Hundreds of houses, their mud-brick walls pocked with bullets, lie empty in a tangle of floorboards, rusting refrigerators and broken stairwells. Broader sectarian rift feared in northern Yemen 2011-12-20T17:24:01Z In surrounding villages, many mud-brick buildings were demolished. In Turkey, 3 More Earthquake Survivors Are Pulled From Rubble 2011-10-26T12:34:02Z As the aircraft approached, "a previously undetected group of suspected Taliban fighters fired two or three RPGs in rapid succession from the tower of a two-story mud-brick building," the report said. Probe finds no U.S. fault in Afghan chopper crash 2011-10-13T00:35:04Z And you look at them and you think, well, it’s mud-brick and it’s a wall. Into the Stone Age With a Scalpel: A Dig With Clues on Early Urban Life 2011-09-07T17:27:14Z There was a magnificent view of the terraced hillsides below, with traditional Yemeni mud-brick houses set on escarpments overlooking the city. Magazine Preview: Yemen on the Brink of Hell 2011-07-21T01:01:35Z Everything is in place to house 40,000 more refugees — new water towers, new latrines, new office blocks and perfectly straight rows of new mud-brick houses that look sturdy enough to live in for years. Misery Follows as Somalis Try to Flee Hunger 2011-07-16T02:02:20Z During this period, buried mud-brick walls absorbed more moisture than usual, producing a subtle chemical signature in the overlying soil that showed up in high-resolution, infrared satellite images. Satellite Imagery Uncovers Up to 17 Lost Egyptian Pyramids 2011-05-27T21:56:29Z They are ubiquitous, sold from mud-brick huts along highways, from card tables set up on city sidewalks and at countless storefronts throughout Baghdad. In Troubled Iraq, Smoking Is Now a Target 2011-05-12T16:27:37Z And along the southern side of the building, the lower bench is decorated with a wave pattern incised into the mud-brick. First Buildings May Have Been Community Centers 2011-05-02T20:00:59Z Central Intelligence Agency fired at least 10 missiles at a mud-brick compound in a predawn attack Friday, a Pakistani intelligence official said. CIA Drone Kills 26 in Pakistan 2011-04-22T14:07:16Z The magnitude-6.9 temblor shook buildings from the hills and pulled monasteries and mud-brick homes to the ground. A Year After Yushu Quake, All Is Not Quiet on China's Western Front 2011-04-14T04:18:18Z The satellite data revealed a warren of mud-brick walls, mazelike streets, and large residences that may have housed the wealthy. Satellite Imagery Uncovers Up to 17 Lost Egyptian Pyramids 2011-05-27T21:56:29Z Glowing barbs of white sunlight bounce off the small, mud-brick buildings. Retail for rural India 2011-03-27T16:24:02Z The lack of elevators was not a problem when most of Kabul was a warren of mud-brick shanties that barely reached more than head-high. Kabul Journal: In This City, It?s a Long Climb to the Top 2011-02-22T01:21:31Z The concrete floors, the remains of mud-brick walls, the plan of the various rooms, will be choked up with grass and weeds, unless they are kept covered and cleared. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Residents there made enough income to roof 36 structures with corrugated metal, replacing the traditional thatch or earth and keeping the rainy season from eroding layers of their mud-brick walls each year. African Gold Rush Kills Children as Miners Discover Lead Dust 2010-12-21T00:08:07Z Beneath about 30 centimeters of sediments, they discovered mud-brick walls. Satellite Imagery Uncovers Up to 17 Lost Egyptian Pyramids 2011-05-27T21:56:29Z "I could cry today, you people have come from God," says Mohammad Ismail, a short, stocky man whose mud-brick home once stood not far from the helicopter's landing site. Four Months Later, Flood Devastation Persists in Pakistan 2010-12-09T20:50:00Z The roof of the mud-brick house became their main fighting position, from which soldiers could fire unhindered at insurgents hiding in a tree line 500 yards away. A Year at War: Between Firefights, Jokes and Sweat, Tales and Tedium 2010-11-22T04:30:00Z Most of the dead were women who were celebrating the wedding on the top floor of a mud-brick house packed with guests, said Jawad Bashart, spokesman of the Baghlan provincial police. Collapse Kills 65 Afghans 2010-10-28T02:00:00Z It was past 2 a.m. when the American soldier spotted two armed men moving on the roof of a mud-brick compound just across from the one where his platoon was sleeping. The Afghan National Army in Combat: Dazed and Confused? 2010-10-19T15:45:00Z She and their six children were inside the mud-brick compound. Afghanistan: Victims' Families Denounce U.S. 'Kill Team' 2010-10-15T21:55:00Z Many of the people said they wanted concrete homes instead of their traditional mud-brick, given that only a handful survived unscathed. Four Months Later, Flood Devastation Persists in Pakistan 2010-12-09T20:50:00Z White, with writing on them, they fly over certain neighborhoods in the mud-brick sprawl beyond the patrol base’s gates. Two Grenades and a Death at the Gym 2010-08-09T16:16:00Z It is a far cry from the mud-brick village homes they grew up in. Special Report: China bets future on inland cities 2010-08-03T10:26:00Z Battalion-level officers deemed the insurgents too close to a cluster of mud-brick houses, perhaps with civilians inside. Petraeus reviews directive meant to limit Afghan civilian deaths 2010-07-09T04:00:00Z There are affluent beachfront communities that look as if they belong in Southern California and then, not far away, slum towns where dirt roads and mud-brick rondavels were the rule. Reporter?s Notebook: A Reporter?s World Cup Notebook 2010-07-03T15:36:00Z I have seen affluent beachfront communities that looked like they belonged in southern California and then, not far away at all, seen slum towns where dirt roads and mud-brick rondavels were the rule. In the Arena: Migratory Wildlife and Migratory Fans 2010-07-01T19:50:00Z The dust storm whips through town and obscures the mud-brick farming compounds built into the rocky hillsides 12 miles west of Kabul. Women's Cricket: Afghanistan's Secretive New Sport 2010-06-04T09:45:00Z After resting in the shade of a mud-brick compound, the soldiers gave brief chase to a pair of suspicious-looking men. American Deaths in Afghanistan Passes 1,000 2010-05-18T14:56:00Z At the edge of Niamey, the capital, mud-brick compounds are full of food refugees from the north. Famine Persists in Niger, but Denial Seems in the Past 2010-05-04T00:05:00Z The mud-brick house collapsed and the roof of a neighboring house was damaged, but no one else in the town of 5,000 was hurt, according to U.S. officials who have reviewed after-action reports. Amid outrage over civilian deaths in Pakistan, CIA turns to smaller missiles 2010-04-26T04:00:00Z They clambered over the remnants of schools, hotels and mud-brick homes looking for signs that a few of the 300 people still missing might be alive. Rescue Efforts Continue as Toll Rises in China Quake 2010-04-16T12:48:00Z The first German investigators, led by Robert Koldewey, reported finding extensive water damage to mud-brick structures and the intrusion of agricultural fields and villages within boundaries of the original city. A Project to Reclaim Ancient Babylon, After Years of Abuse 2010-03-22T20:51:00Z Sitting in a cool, dark, mud-brick office building in the city where nomadic Tuareg mingle with Arabs and African Songhay, Fulani and Mande peoples, Haidara expresses alarm at the challenge local law enforcement faces. 2010-01-13T14:58:00Z Though a structure of mud-brick—the sort made by the Israelites in Egypt—and with no pretension to architectural style, it is, in Californian parlance, a hacienda. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea The door, which faced towards the enemy's lines, was also sandbagged up, and a new door had been made by knocking out an opening through the mud-brick wall. Between the Lines Then the pattern of the dance changed; the islanders whirled to face the mud-brick buildings which housed the invading Earthmen. Despoilers of the Golden Empire They’d arranged their mismatched chairs in a circle in the cramped back room of the bookstore and were drinking and eating organic crumbly things with the taste and consistency of mud-brick. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town A little blind village nestled there, with mud-brick huts, a watch-tower and a tiny minaret; date-grounds and fields of corn, melons, and other vegetables spread a green fringe among the groves. The Flying Legion The crash was of a falling mud-brick wall, pushed outward by the shoulders of a pachyderm that wanted alcohol. Guns of the Gods He said his name was Captain Thomas Cook, and the license to sell firearms framed on the mud-brick wall bore him witness. The Ivory Trail At the same time, the armored infantrymen came pouring out of the mud-brick houses, swinging their swords, straight into the mass of confused native warriors. Despoilers of the Golden Empire |
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