"'There are several texts at the National Museum of Denmark included in our volume that mentions beer being used as payment to workers,' Dr Troels Arbøll stated. 'They are therefore administrative documents or receipts.'"
"'Beer was presumably high in nutrition and considered an integral part of how these earliest urbanised populations lived,' Dr Arbøll explained, emphasizing its importance in daily life."
"'A great many of the cuneiform tablets we have today bear witness to a highly developed bureaucracy,' Dr Arbøll noted, highlighting the complexity of ancient administrative systems."
Recent discoveries at the National Museum of Denmark reveal ancient texts that document beer transactions as payment in the city of Umma, Iraq. One tablet, dating back 4,000 years, details a record of beer supplied by an individual named 'Ayalli'. It includes quantities of high-quality and ordinary beer distributed among workers. Beer was likely nutritious and essential for early urban populations. The findings illustrate the advanced bureaucratic systems of ancient societies, which relied on cuneiform tablets for record-keeping and administration.
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