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There is such a thing as too much red brick...
...wave of New England colonial nostalgia has led to the construction of new red brick buildings, homes, stores, and pathways in Harvard Square during the past three decades...
...Japan and China were at least a millennium away. Nomadic hunters and fishermen appeared for the first time along the shores of the Caspian and Aral seas and Lake Baikal. On the Iranian plateau, farmed since at least the 6th millennium B.C., people lived in houses of sun-dried brick, while craftsmen in the city of Anau used the potter's wheel to turn out elaborately shaped and painted clay vessels. These prehistoric Persians carried on trade with small villages in what is now northern Pakistan...
...most significant discovery was a mud-brick arched gateway measuring more than 12 feet high. Two other gateways had been found at other sites, but the Ashkelon arch dates to 1900 B.C.E., making it the oldest monumental arch ever found...
...concrete and red-brick Anderson Bridge is located just up river from Weld Boathouse, home of Harvard's women's crew teams...