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1.4 Egypt (Dynasty 30) 1.5 Persia. 1.6 Carthage. ... Time dollars; Fictional currencies ... Philippine peso fuerte; Guerilla pesos; Taiwan
Ancient Egypt was home to almost half of the global population by 30th century BC. The city states of Sumer developed a trade and market economy based originally on the commodity money of the shekel which was a certain weight measure of barley, while the Babylonians and their city state neighbors later developed the earliest system of prices ...
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa. ... Grain could be traded for other goods, according to the fixed price list. [75]
Metjen began his career as a royal scribe. He later became the overseer of the royal scribes and confidant to the king. He progressed to an administrator of several palatinates and royal storages. Finally, he became "the Great One of the 'Ten of Upper Egypt'" and a member of a type of privy council. The royal house gave several estates to Metjen.
Diversion dam — The first Diversion dam is Sadd el-Kafara Dam built in Egypt around 2700 B.C. [19]; Noria — Norias appeared in Egypt in the 4th Century B.C. [20]; Beekeeping — domesticated Beekeeping was first recorded in ancient Egypt around 2600 B.C. [21] [22] as well as the first use of smoke while extracting the honey from bee nests.
More than 2,600 years since they were buried, archaeologists in Egypt said Saturday they had found at least 59 ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of the country's capital Cairo, one ...
The earliest evidence for deben is from the Early Dynastic Period.It was found at the site of Buto in Nile Delta.The weighing stone was uncovered in an archaeological context from Second Dynasty, in the so-called "labyrinth" building, it bears the inscription of the "friendly is the heart of Horus, director" (of the installation) "Hemsemenib".
A British man who found a massive cache of ancient Roman gold and silver coins while hunting with a metal detector has a lot more modern currency in his pocket after the treasure was auctioned off ...