Professors Sarah Symons and Robert Cockcroft publish about the origin of the hour

Dr. Sarah Symons, Professor School of Interdisciplinary Science together with Robert Cockcroft (Physics and Astronomy) have recently published a short piece in The Conversation about the origin of the hour: read full article in theconversation.com

Ancient Egyptians measured the first hour, and changed how we related to time

Some time measurements, like months and years, use the movements of the moon and sun, respectively. But other time measurements, like the hour, aren’t clearly connected to astronomical phenomena

theconversation.com

https://theconversation.com/ancient-egyptians-measured-the-first-hour-and-changed-how-we-related-to-time-203659