How Ancient Babylonians Tracked Groceries with Clay Receipts | Boring History For Sleep

Tonight’s sleepy story takes us far back — to the bustling markets and mud-brick streets of ancient Babylon, where people did their grocery shopping with… clay tablets.

Yes, the Babylonians were keeping receipts 4,000 years ago — but not on paper. They used baked clay tokens and cuneiform writing to record food, trade, and daily life.

In this gentle bedtime episode, we’ll explore how scribes tracked barley, beer, goats, and garlic — and why ancient receipts say more about human nature than we might expect.

This is part of the “Boring History for Sleep” series — relaxing, weird, and wonderful historical storytelling to help you unwind, learn, and fall gently asleep.

🌙 Chapters include:
– Babylonian shopping lists
– Cuneiform as early accounting
– Markets, trade, and everyday items
– How receipts became religion, taxes, and stories

🛏️ Ideal for:
– Fans of ancient history
– Sleep podcasts and ASMR voices
– People who love weird little facts about the past

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