The ancient reason there are 60 minutes in an hour

A mysterious 5,000-year-old decision led directly to how we still count time today.

By Jocelyn Timperley

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20260320-the-ancient-reason-there-are-60-minutes-in-an-hour-and-60-seconds-in-a-minute

Books about Time at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/16707

#books #science #time

@gutenberg_org

As far as I was informed the 10 day week tanked because of the horses, horses could not work for 9 days straight instead of 6, so all the horses were exhausted and that hurt the economy and that was the end of it.

🐴 🐎