The earliest Egyptian calendar was based on the moon’s cycles, but the lunar but it did not predict the Nile flooding which happened every year.
So, the Egyptians adopted a solar calendar. They devised a 365-day calendar that seems to have begun in 4236 B.C.E., the earliest recorded year in history.
(Egyptian calendar, 2013)
So, the Egyptians adopted a solar calendar. They devised a 365-day calendar that seems to have begun in 4236 B.C.E., the earliest recorded year in history.
(Egyptian calendar, 2013)
Egyptians clocks were much different from the ones we use today There were two types of clocks in Ancient Egypt—a water clock and a sundial. A water clock, pictured to the left, is a little stand with a pot on the top of the stand and a pot at the bottom of the stand. The pot at the top of the stand had a hole drilled in the side. This pot was then filled with water and the water would flow out of the top pot down to the bottom pot. When the water was at a certain level, it was a certain time. The only disadvantage to the water clock was that you had to keep refilling it.
The sundial was basically a circle with numbers written around it with a little stick in the middle. When the stick’s shadow fell at a certain number, it was that time.
One big advantage the water clock had over the sundial was you couldn’t use the sundial at night and the water clock you could.
("Technology of ancient," 2000)
The sundial was basically a circle with numbers written around it with a little stick in the middle. When the stick’s shadow fell at a certain number, it was that time.
One big advantage the water clock had over the sundial was you couldn’t use the sundial at night and the water clock you could.
("Technology of ancient," 2000)