World’s Oldest Paycheck Reveals Ancient Sumerian Workers Were Paid In Beer
AncientPages.com | November 22, 2018
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A roughly 5,000-year-old cuneiform stone tablet, in possession of the British Museum in London shows how workers were paid their daily rations in liquid gold.
We have previously seen that the oldest evidence of beer was found on a Sumerian tablet in Mesopotamia.
The drink was apparently so popular that ancient Sumerian workers were pai
d for their labor in beer and this practice was widely known in ancient world.
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