This versatile building material made of baked clay, used since ancient times in India, Egypt, Babylon. According to scientists, leading excavations in Mesopotamia, the valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the first standard bricks was invented by the Sumerians - the people who lived in these places is 6 thousand years ago. They were called "rangename" and had dimensions 20x30x10 centimeters. Now the country has its own standards: in England, for example, bricks are produced sizes 210x105x67 millimeters. In the city of Stewarti annually produces 10 million of these bricks.