Another type of water clock had a float in the water. The float is connected with a 'hand' indicating the time on a board. In Egypt the earliest preserved waterclocks date to the New Kingdom (about ...

Egypt developed them somewhere around 1,400 ... There’s no evidence that ancient water clocks regulated their temperature, so the clocks were probably not very accurate. However, these clocks ...

Builders knew how to keep people cool in hot, dry climates thousands of years ago. It's time to get that knowledge back.

But what did the Ancient Egyptians do when they had an important mummification ... way back in 428-348 BC. Plato used a large water clock with a sound similar to a water organ to let him know when his ...

4,000 years ago, Ancient Egyptians and Babylonians introduced ... and 60 minutes in an hour. A grandfather clock During the French Revolution, they tried to base timekeeping instead on the number ...

Ancient Egyptian structures Voiceover ... He had to turn back the clock thousands of years, back before the first civilizations. Back into prehistory. 13,000 years ago, the ravages of the last ...

The fall season officially begins on the calendar this Sunday, with the autumn equinox. For those of us in the northern ...

We invented 60-minute clocks ... well before the ancient Egyptians. It all started when we stopped hunter-gathering food and began growing it instead. With the abundance of water and good soil ...

What do travel bloggers, travel writers, and travel agents have in common? It’s their job to see and experience as many ...

Tarsus, Turkey, plays an important part in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. As well as its significance for the Abrahamic ...

As the main point of access from the Taurus Mountains to the sea, the city was a major player in trade as early as 1600-1180 BCE, when it was ruled by the Hittites, an ancient civilization.