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World's oldest known sundial, from Egypt's Valley of the Kings (c. 1500 BC), used to measure work hours. [1] [2] [3]A sundial is a device that indicates time by using a light spot or shadow cast by the position of the Sun on a reference scale. [4]
World's oldest sundial, from Egypt's Valley of the Kings (c. 1500 BC) Reconstruction of the 2,000 year old Phoenician sundial found at Umm al-Amad, Lebanon The earliest sundials known from the archaeological record are shadow clocks (1500 BC or BCE ) from ancient Egyptian astronomy and Babylonian astronomy .
The Romans inherited the sundial from the Greeks. [19] The first sundial in Rome arrived in 264 BC, looted from Catania in Sicily. This sundial offered the innovation of the hours of the "horologium" throughout the day where before the Romans simply split the day into early morning and forenoon (mane and ante merididiem). [20]
The Phoenician sundial is a 2,000 year old scaphe sundial discovered in Umm al-Amad, Lebanon. [1] [2]It was found in two fragments, 80 meters apart. The first fragment was discovered by Ernest Renan's Mission de Phénicie in 1860–61, whereas the second fragment was found in the 1940s in Maurice Dunand's 1943–45 excavations.
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Ibn al-Shatir was aware that "using a gnomon that is parallel to the Earth's axis will produce sundials whose hour lines indicate equal hours on any day of the year." His sundial is the oldest polar-axis sundial still in existence. The concept later appeared in Western sundials from at least 1446. [15] [16]
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