User blog comment:PitaKang/Funday Monday 1: How much did Solomon's Temple cost?/@comment-173.20.141.134-20140508160311

There are 75lbs in a Talant. They had units of measurment back then. We tend to think actient cultures exaggerate everything, but how exaggerated are pyramids found all over the world and burials with 100s of lbs of gold? King David and Solomon, were very sharp humans! Another thing ist there was a mechanical device, found, from 2500years ago, that could calculate the movement of the sun and the inner 5 planets. How many people do you know who can caluclate that and then build that kind of device? Even if they were as sharp as a 6-10year old, in our time, look at how many savants we have... Weighing schales date back 2000BCE, to our knowledge, and they had to understand measuring, if they could build temples that lasted long enough for us to value as historical art.