The maneh was divided into sixty shekels, and the standard used in later Babylonia had been fixed by Dungi, king of Ur.

One of the standard maneh-weights of stone, from the mint of Nebuchadrezzar, is now in the British Museum.

In the time of the Second Babylonian empire stamped or coined money was introduced, as well as pieces of five or more shekels.

This was the period when the great banking firm of Egibi flourished, which anticipated the Rothschilds in making loans to the State.
The Babylonian cemetery adjoined the cities of the living, and was laid out in imitation of the latter.

The tombs were built of crude bricks, and were separated from one another by streets, through which flowed streams of "living water." Gardens were planted by the side of some of the tombs, which resembled the houses of the living, and in front of which offerings were made to the dead.