What are the traditional materials?

Modern: bricks, sand, stone, cement, wood, tiles, precast or cast-in-place concrete slabs, steel bars, etc.

Ancient: bricks, reeds and their products (foundation vapor barrier and roof insulation), wood (purlins, pillars, doors and windows), adobe (walls, foundation), whitewash (plastering and masonry walls), mud and thatch (and mud masonry walls and waterproofing of roofs), tiles (roofing, waterproofing of walls), sorghum knotted poles (roof insulation, etc.), sorghum flesh (sorghum ears to remove the grain) or reed poles affixed with the wall to prevent the mud adobe houses were rain, gold bricks (the same palace gold bricks, just the quality and texture of some poor) pavement.