History of time-keeping
Oct 29, 2018
2 minutes
1300 BCE:
In 2013, the oldest known sundial was discovered in Egypt, in the Valley of the Kings. It has been dated to the thirteenth century BCE.
430 BCE:
Some of the first timekeeping devices that didn’t use the Sun to calculate time were water clocks or (Greek for “water-thieves”). Aristotle and Aristophanes both suggest that water clocks were in common usage in law courts around 430 BCE, used as timer to prevent trials and speeches from going on for too long.
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