Learn Something Interesting: The Advent of the Ancient Egyptian Clepsydra (Water Clock)
The Clepsydra (pronounced "clep-see-drah"), more commonly referred to as the "water clock", was among the earliest technological devices engineered for measuring time, predating mechanical clocks by over a millennia. The earliest known example of a clepsydra is from Ancient Egypt, constructed close to 1400 B.C., and attributed to an Egyptian court official named "Amenemhet" (pronounced…