I think it was the Babylonians that created the hour/minute/second and a precursor of the meter on the process. It’s high-tech bronze-age innovation, that got hyped-out so much that it took the entire Old-World by storm, so the Egyptians got them too.
Hum… I think the week is more widely adopted than the solar year.
But neither is universal. AFAIK, the length of the day is.
Didn’t the Egyptians figure it out? Or someone before them was like “SHADOWS! SHADOWS THEN! SHADOWS NOW!”
I think it was the Babylonians that created the hour/minute/second and a precursor of the meter on the process. It’s high-tech bronze-age innovation, that got hyped-out so much that it took the entire Old-World by storm, so the Egyptians got them too.
Oh neat, that makes sense given the Babylonians base-60 numbering system
omg the babylonians, fielded the best footie team in all of existence, except for other examples.
Meter was recent (historically speaking). They defined the circumference of the world as 40,000 km.