"One tablet, dating back 4,000 years, represents a record of beer being used as a form of payment in the ancient city of Umma, in what is now southern Iraq."
"Beer was presumably high in nutrition and considered an integral part of how these earliest urbanised populations lived."
"A great many of the cuneiform tablets we have today bear witness to a highly developed bureaucracy, indicating the need to keep track of advanced societies."
"There are several texts at the National Museum of Denmark that mention beer being used as payment to workers, serving as administrative documents or receipts."
Recent discoveries at the National Museum of Denmark reveal that beer was used as a form of payment in ancient Umma, Iraq, 4,000 years ago. Experts deciphered inscribed tablets detailing transactions involving various qualities and quantities of beer supplied by an individual named 'Ayalli'. These tablets serve as administrative documents, indicating that beer was a nutritional staple for early urban populations. The emergence of cuneiform writing around 5,200 years ago facilitated the development of complex bureaucracies in ancient societies.
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