Question

What is a characteristic of Mesopotamian architecture?
Responses

painting images onto the surface of sun-dried mud bricks
painting images onto the surface of sun-dried mud bricks

surfacing important buildings with glazed and baked mud bricks
surfacing important buildings with glazed and baked mud bricks

adding images to walls that depict scenes of everyday life
adding images to walls that depict scenes of everyday life

constructing walls of important buildings using marble blocks

Answer 1

surfacing important buildings with glazed and baked mud bricks

Mesopotamian builders used sun-dried bricks for cores but faced important temples and palaces with fired (often glazed) bricks — e.g., the Ishtar Gate of Babylon with blue glazed relief bricks.