More than five millennia ago, an Egyptian weaver created a simple, tailored linen dress, likely not realizing just how long it would stick around. The Tarkhan Dress, carbon-dated to 3482 to 3102 B.C., ...

Nearly overlooked amidst the statues and charred scrolls buried at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, the "Prosciutto of Portici" is the earliest known Roman portable sundial. The silver ...

On the left edge, a bronze stump indicates that the gnomon — the "hand" of a sundial — has broken off. When 18th-century archaeologists stumbled on the object in their excavation tunnels under ...

Compact, elegant, and surprisingly complex, Roman portable sundials were the ultimate accessory for the early-tech adopters of antiquity. These handheld gadgets became popular — or viral, if we want ...

Byzantine sundial-calendar reproduction in Thessaloniki Technology Museum, the original caption as per exhibit was: Portable sundial, Memphis, Roman Egypt, 4th century AD (modeled after original in ...

Two portable sundials of considerable interest have recently been acquired and placed on exhibition in the Time Measurement Section of the Science Museum. The first is an ivory column or ‘pillar ...

The Sundial Totem in Fisch is an important item that can be used to manipulate the time of the day. However, to obtain an item of such potential, you must grind extra hard as it's not readily ...

Here's a solution: Open the door. Especially if there are cousins around, give one of the kids a watch (explain that it's like a portable sundial). Tell them they can come back inside when the big ...

Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books. A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building façade. An illustration of a heart shape "Donate to the archive" An illustration of ...

I used the best portable power stations to measure the solar energy generated by each panel and used an older version of the Anker SOLIX 100W panel as my control panel to account for inconsistent ...

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