Hans_lune Wrote:
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> GChase Wrote:
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> > Hi Don,
> >
> > Does this observation mean that the AE used
> inches
> > ?

...

> ....ah yeah, however I always favored the idea
> that the Egyptians used Shaku. The Shakkanho is
> the traditional Japanese system of measurement.
> The name shakkanho originates from the name of two
> of the units, the shaku, a unit of length, and the
> kan, a unit of weight.

Ah ... but it seems it was based on the Chinese system - [en.wikipedia.org].

So presumably the AE must have been using the Chinese system, too - [en.wikipedia.org]

The first Chinese measurement units were created by the Yellow Emperor - [en.wikipedia.org] - whose traditional reign dates are 2697–2597 or 2698–2598 BC. So that might have been roughly contemporary with the Early Dynastic/Old Kingdom. Apparently, length units were derived from the human body ...

So we might be back to cubits again! Unless ancient Chinese elbows differed materially from ancient Egyptian ones ...

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