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Egyptian Sundial is a sundial type used in ancient egypt.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
The earliest sundial was found in Egypt[15]
The earliest household clocks known, from the archaeological finds, are the sundials (1500 BCE) in Ancient Egypt and ancient Babylonian astronomy. Ancient analemmatic sundials of the same era (about 1500 BCE) and their prototype have been discovered on the territory of modern Russia.[16][17][18][19] Much earlier obelisks, once thought to have been used also as sundials, placed at temples built in honor of a pharaoh, are now thought to serve only as a memorial.[20] Presumably, humans were telling time from shadow-lengths at an even earlier date, but this is hard to verify. In roughly 700 BCE, the Old Testament describes a sundial — the "dial of Ahaz" mentioned in Isaiah 38:8 and 2 Kings 20:9 (possibly the earliest account of a sundial that is anywhere to be found in history) — which was likely of Egyptian or Babylonian design. Sundials were also developed in Kush.[21][22] Sundials existed in China since ancient times, but very little is known of their history. It is known that the ancient Chinese developed a form of sundials c. 800 BCE, and the sundials eventually evolved to very sophisticated water clocks by 1000 CE, and sometime in the Song Dynasty (1000-1400 CE), a compass would sometimes also be constructed on the sundial.[23]
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- ^ Kamrin, Authors: Janice. "Telling Time in Ancient Egypt | Essay | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History". The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
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- ^ "Prints of Egyptian Sundial". Mary Evans Prints Online Photo Prints. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
- ^ McHugh, F. D.; Klemin, Alexander; Buchanan, A. E. (1935). "An Ancient Egyptian Sundial, Laboratory Tests for Rugs and more". Scientific American. 153 (3): 144–161. Bibcode:1935SciAm.153..144M. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0935-144. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
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- ^ Vodolazhskaya, L.N.; Larenok, P.A.; Nevsky, M.Yu.The ancient astronomical instrument from Srubna burial of kurgan field Tavriya-1 (Northern Black Sea Coast). Archaeologist and Ancient Technologies 2014, 2(2), 31-53.
- ^ Vodolazhskaya, L.N. Analemmatic and horizontal sundials of the Bronze Age (Northern Black Sea Coast). Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies 2013, 1(1), 68-88.
- ^ Vodolazhskaya L.N., Larenok P.A., Nevsky M.Yu. The prototype of ancient analemmatic sundials (Rostov Oblast, Russia). Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies 2016, 4(1), 96-116.
- ^ Vodolazhskaya, L.N.; Larenok, P.A.; Nevsky, M.Yu. Solnechnye chasy epokhi bronzy is srubnogo pogrebeniya mogil'nika Tavriya-1. [Sundial of Bronze Age from the Srubna burial of kurgan field Tavriya-1]. Istoriko-arkheologicheskiy al'manakh. [Historical-Archaeological Almanac]. Vol. 13, Armavir, Krasnodar, Moscow, 2015, p. 4-14.
- ^ The oldest surviving sundial
- ^ Depuydt, Leo (1 January 1998). "Gnomons at Meroë and Early Trigonometry". The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. 84: 171–180. doi:10.2307/3822211. JSTOR 3822211.
- ^ Slayman, Andrew (27 May 1998). "Neolithic Skywatchers". Archaeology Magazine Archive. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
- ^ "Sundials in China - A brief note". The University of Hong Kong. 1997-07-01. Archived from the original on 2010-03-14. Retrieved 2010-01-20.