Explore the historic units once used to quantify length, volume, and weight across ancient cultures with this crossword.
Timeless Measures of Ancient Civilizations
Explore the diverse units and terms used across ancient cultures to quantify length, volume, and weight.
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- 1. Nautical measure based on arm span for depth
- 2. Ancient Near East unit of weight equal to 60 shekels
- 4. Greek unit of length used in footraces and maps
- 5. Biblical unit measuring dry volume for grain
- 6. Smallest unit of weight in several ancient systems
- 7. Roman agricultural land measure
- 12. Large ancient unit of weight and money
- 15. Old distance measure roughly three miles
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- 3. Arabic dry measure used for grains and spices
- 8. Historic Indian weight unit used for precious metals
- 9. Roman unit of length about one step (pace)
- 10. Ancient Chinese unit of weight, precursor of modern jin
- 11. Middle Eastern cubit-based length unit
- 13. Egyptian unit of length equal to a handbreadth
- 14. Roman length unit based on the width of the palm
- 16. Fundamental ancient Semitic weight and currency
- 17. Old typographic unit later used in printing
- 18. Ancient Egyptian unit roughly the length of a forearm
- 19. Mesopotamian clay tablet measure for grain volume
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