TELLING THE TIME
EARLY EGYPTIAN METHOD. ,According to M." Ilin, author of "What Time is it? in which he describes some of the earliest forms Of telling.the time, there was once a clock which required more superr vision than Big Ben. It was in the temple of Osiris on one of the islands of the Nile. Actually this clock was a series of 360 vessels, attended by . many priests. Eyery day one priest filled his vessel with milk and the milk emptied out in exactly 24 hours. Then another priest filled up . the next vessel, and so forth during the whole of the Egyptian year of 360 days.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 622, 29 August 1933, Page 7
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108TELLING THE TIME Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 622, 29 August 1933, Page 7
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