:::: The Measures of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome and Europe are anything but original research. The original source was Mesopotamia, Egypt copied those converting a sexigesimal to a septenary system. The Greeks copied from both sources and the Romans and Persians from all of the above. Body measures were combined with agricultural measures and standards of geometry, navigation and units of time to give definitions of landowners property in squares of the units of length to define areas and cubes of the units of length to define volumes. The units of a minute of march, and hour of march, an itrw or river measure and a days march or a days sail are all related to measures of various fractions and multiples of miles and degrees. Klein "The History of Measurement" is a useful source and for Egyptian measures Gardiner and Gillings.