thumb|30th Dynasty mudbricks excavated in [[Luxor. Ancient mudbricks are a common source of sebakh.]] Sebakh (, less commonly transliterated as sebbakh) is an Arabic word that translates to "fertilizer". In English, the term is primarily used to describe decomposed mudbricks from archaeological sites, which is an organic material that can be employed both as an agricultural fertilizer and as a fuel for fires.
thumb|30th Dynasty mudbricks excavated in [[Luxor. Ancient mudbricks are a common source of sebakh.]] Sebakh (, less commonly transliterated as sebbakh) is an Arabic word that translates to "fertilizer". In English, the term is primarily used to describe decomposed mudbricks from archaeological sites, which is an organic material that can be employed both as an agricultural fertilizer and as a fuel for fires.
==Composition== Most sebakh consists of ancient, deteriorated mudbrick, a primary building material in ancient Egypt. This material is composed of ancient mud mixed with the nitrous compost of the hay and stubble that the bricks were originally formulated with to give added strength before being baked in the sun.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).