Adobe is mud brick construction. Like rammed earth, it is one of humanitys most ancient construction materials, with adobe bricks being perhaps the oldest manufactured building material. The term adobe is often credited to the Spanish, who are most responsible for spreading the technology globally via its imperialist adventures, but the word probably derives ultimately from the Arabic attubah, meaning brick. Evidence of mud brick construction has been traced back to Iraq around 6000 B.C. and Egypt circa 5000 B.C. The Moors carried it eventually to Spain, from where it was