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Timeless Measures of Ancient Civilizations
Explore the historic units once used to quantify length, volume, and weight across ancient cultures with this crossword.
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Across
  • 1. Arab volume measure for grains
  • 2. Traditional Chinese unit of weight
  • 4. Greek unit of weight and currency
  • 7. Greek unit for measuring distances, roughly 600 feet
  • 11. Babylonian unit of weight
Down
  • 3. Old typographic unit also used as a small length measure
  • 5. Ancient small unit of length, part of a hand span
  • 6. Ancient Egyptian length unit based on the forearm
  • 8. Large ancient weight unit used in Mesopotamia
  • 9. Ancient Indian unit of length, similar to a cubit
  • 10. Old English volume unit for dry goods

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