A 4,000 Year Old Beer Tab

Researchers at the National Museum of Denmark have interpreted a clay tablet in their collection that records an ancient transaction:

One, which dates 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. It shows beer in various quality and quantities supplied by someone named 'Ayalli'.

It includes a payment of 16 litres of 'high quality beer' and 55 litres of 'ordinary beer', which would have been distributed among a group of workers

Even the earliest civilizations recognized the motivational value of beer.

For more details, see “Ancient BEER tab is discovered on a 4,000-year-old clay tablet.”

Cheers!