Post #2527673
2026-05-14 14:14 UTC
The litter, kilo, meter all come from the metric system, which didn’t exist in the time of the Hittites. It’s not about underestimating them, they had other units of measurement, but that obviously wasn’t metric.
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@Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip 2026-05-14 14:31
The Egyptian “Elle” was 50 cm, so 1/2 a meter. So they could have measured 125 Liter using 1x1x1 “Elle”. I dont know the density of the material, that would be interesting to know. The cube looks like it was important to them. Maybe it was to measure big shipments of wares. Since they probably used scales back in that time. Long story short: Seems like quite the coincidence, even more so if you consider the work that had to be put into carving the stone. But well, maybe it was a doorstopper?