Ben Claasz Coockson, was born in 1956 in The Hague, The Netherlands. Worked in his own Archaeological Buro in Holland from where he was in 1986 sent to Syria to do the architectural work on the excavation site of Tell Hammam et Turkman, this was the first introduction with mud-brick. Almost all the architectural remains on the Tell were mud-brick and a quick understanding of this for him unknown material was necessary. The excavation house and everything else in the neighbourhood were mud-based, so the titl