Why 24 hours in a day and 60 minutes in an hour? The ancient history behind our clocks

Hindustan Times Science

From Egyptian sundials to Babylonian mathematics, the way we measure time is rooted in some remarkably ancient ideas

Excerpt from Hindustan Times Science.

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