Historical Units

Coudée

Définition

La coudée est une ancienne unité de longueur basée sur la distance du coude à l'extrémité du majeur, variant généralement de 45 à 52 cm selon les civilisations.

Explication

One of humanity's oldest recorded measurements, the cubit appears in Egyptian, Babylonian, Hebrew, and Roman texts. The Royal Egyptian cubit (~52.4 cm) was standardized using a granite master rod and used to build the Great Pyramid of Giza with remarkable precision. The shorter 'common cubit' of roughly 45 cm is the one referenced in most biblical descriptions, including Noah's Ark.

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