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Forgotten Weights and Lengths of Antiquity
Explore rare and obscure measurement units used in ancient civilizations, revealing a fascinating glimpse into historical quantification.
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  • 1. Medieval land area unit roughly the size of grazing land for an ox
  • 2. Smallest Roman coin also used as a weight measure
  • 3. Egyptian volume measure for grain
  • 4. Roman unit of land area roughly 0.25 hectares
  • 6. Ancient Greek unit of weight and currency
  • 7. Ancient Andean quipu-based measurement system
  • 9. Roman weight unit equal to 1/24 of an ounce
  • 10. Old Southeast Asian unit of currency also used as weight
  • 13. Large unit of weight used in ancient Greece and Mesopotamia
  • 14. Ancient Chinese unit of mass still in use today
  • 16. Dry volume unit used in ancient Hebrew measures
  • 18. Latin term for a grain-based measurement
  • 20. Ancient unit of weight and currency across Mesopotamia
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  • 5. Russian obsolete length measure equal to about 1.06 meters
  • 8. Roman coin serving as a financial and weight standard
  • 11. Related to the ancient.measurements found in Aramaic texts
  • 12. Obscure Chinese land measurement unit
  • 15. Old English measure of distance, originally length of a furrow
  • 17. Ancient unit based on forearm length
  • 19. Biblical dry measure equal to about 220 liters

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