The object was the pocket watch of its day. Fixed sundials were everywhere in ancient Greece and Rome, but only 25 other portable sundials from antiquity are known, says Alexander Jones ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman theater discovered a rare artifact—an intact, inscribed sundial. The 2,000-year-old piece is one of only a few like it ever recovered, and it offers ...

A sundial discovered outside a tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings may be the world's oldest ancient Egyptian sundials, say scientists. Dating to the 19th dynasty, or the 13th century B.C., the ...

Archaeologists have made a rare discovery of an ancient Roman sundial with inscriptions that tell them a lot about its owner. Alessandro Launaro/University of Cambridge Archaeologists digging at a ...

The red circle indicates where the sundial was found in relation to the remains of the ancient town's theatre. Researchers believe it was originally placed in the nearby forum where townspeople ...

That era was known as the Pax Romana. In ancient times, the Ara Pacis building on the Tiber River doubled as a giant sundial —or gnomon —with the help if a nearby Egyptian obelisk taken from ...

The back of an ancient sundial reveals a cheat sheet of locations and latitude coordinates. © Science Museum / Science & Society Picture Library It’s the four or ...

Now historians have come up with an intriguing explanation for the feature - it was built as a sundial to illuminate the emperor as he entered on important occasions. The opening is the only ...

A sundial discovered outside a tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings may be the world's oldest ancient Egyptian sundials, say scientists. Dating to the 19th dynasty, or the 13th century B.C., the ...