3200 year old sundial guides archaeologists into the past
During the 2013 season of the Valley of the Kings Project carried out by University of Basel, Prof. Susanne Bickel’s team have found a number of exciting artefacts including what they suspect to be one of the oldest portable sundials in the area between tombs KV 29 and 61.
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Sundial discovery
However, one find that has excited the archaeologists is a small piece of limestone, engraved with a semicircle marked out by twelve divisions painted with black lines. A central hole would have served as the fixing point for a wooden or metal pin, whose shadow would have marked out the ”hours”. The entire piece is only a little over 16 cm along the horizontal baseline. Small faded black dots allowed a still finer timing in the middle of each segment.
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Actually, this is really cool. Thanks for the link.
