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How did people measure time before clocks were invented?

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Beginning in prehistoric days, humankind started reading the elements around them in order to measure time. Ancient humans used ... These obelisks were believed to have been constructed around 3500 BC and a shadow would be cast by the obelisk as the sun made it's way across the sky. read more

Essentially, there was no time as we know it before clocks were invented. We measured days and months according to the sun and moon. Even though there were ways to measure time in an elapsed sense, like hourglasses, real time divisions didn’t come into being until sometime between about 3,500 to 6,000 years ago (the evidence isn’t conclusive) somewhere in the middle east or the far east, no doubt independently. read more

Another very early form of clock to tell the time was the water clock. The water clock was used by the ancient Greeks. It is considered to be one of the earliest forms of timekeeping devices that didn’t take use the observance of the celestial bodies to help calculate the passage of time. read more

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