The World's Most Ancient Paycheck: A Glimpse into History

An ancient cuneiform tablet from 3000 BC, showing pictographs of a human head eating from a bowl (ration) and a conical vessel (beer), is overlaid with the text 'Beer o'clock, 3000 BC'. The image is from a New Scientist article titled 'The world's oldest paycheck was cashed in beer', which explains this artifact as the earliest known payslip, recording beer rations for workers in ancient Uruk, Iraq.

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