Show Tiles Tile Long In Ute Use Ancient peoples made use of tiles thousands of years jeara ears ago ogo and Imd many mallY examples ex ex- ex examples amples of the decorative of the Babylonians the I Egyptians and the Persians have ha been found The fhe world orld lost many valuable thIn things among them the art of making tiles during the conquests ts of Alexander In to Inthe Inthe the latter part of the Fourth century B. B C. C More than 1700 years yearA passel il Slit by before tIl tiles s a again agan fin came orne to the fo f The Saracens made tiles In ici In InI I the hI Fifteenth Fit century and the the use of fit this decorative e medium spread to other ther parts of the civilized cI world first to Spain and thence to Italy Haly II U III 11 England Germany Mexico l 1 Prance rance and finally to America The Hie Spanish tiles of Mexico found their way Into California and English tiles tillS reached us through New ew York |