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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 4589746, member: 93416&quot;]Yes - As far as I can discover Egypt and Ancient Persia were using weights (for trade?) by 3,000 BC.&nbsp; Indus valley by 2,600 BC.&nbsp; [We still seem to have no weights from China before about 600 BC - but they surely must exist (?)].</p><p><br /></p><p>Contrast that with England - weights nearly made it here around 1300 BC (joke - one from then was recently found from a shipwreck off the Devon coast).&nbsp; But that aside we really have next to no pre-Roman weights.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the really strange thing about the very early&nbsp; Indus weights is they seem to follow exactly the same standard as the very much later Mauryan coins, Shahi coins and and indeed Vijayanagar gold pagodas - all very close to 3.43g!&nbsp; (A suvarna (of 4 coins) of c. 13.7g)</p><p><br /></p><p>This is so strange that modern archaeologists etc seem almost to pretend it did not happen - but work back in the 1930&#039;s shows rather definitively that it did.&nbsp; Perhaps I should write to Graham Hancock about it.....&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T</p><p><br /></p><p>PS another thing is - there are a lot of Indus Valley weights - but hardly any thought seems to be given to what they were weighing.&nbsp; Did they have thriving markets driven by weighed bullion?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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