The present study investigates for the first time the historical bricks of The Red Monastery(west Sohag, Egypt), built about fifth century AD, which showing several aspects of brickdecay. Several techniques were employed (geochemical, petrographical, mineralogical andmorphological) to determine their deterioration features and provenance of the raw materialas well as shed lights on the firing techniques. In addition, integration of geochemical ...
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