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Many temples, like the Parthenon at the Athenian Acropolis, were made of marble. Others, like the temple of Zeus at Olympia, were limestone. Greeks built using the materials they had access to.
But the larger tombs and temples of the third millennium require brick and later (in Egypt) stone. Sun-dried mud brick, as used in Jericho as early as 8000 BC, is the building block of man's first monumental buildings - the ziggurats (or temples) of Mesopotamia and the mastabas (or early tombs) of Egypt. In southern Mesopotamia, near the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates, there is no local stone.