 The Sadd el-Khafara dam, 14 meters high and built in sacking masonry in Wadi Al-Garawi near Helwan in Egypt, dates back to 2900 - 2600 BC 
The Greeks called the brickwork emplecton   and made use of it in particular in the construction of the defensive walls of them poleis.The Romans made extensive use of the sack masonry technique calling it opus coementicium, because " coementicium " was the name given to the filling cast between the two vestments.The masonry was used during the centuries up to our days, as evidenced by the medieval constructions of defensive walls and large works.