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He Was Terrified of His Own Shadow... Then It Became a Clock

An ancient Egyptian had to signal noon, but there were no clocks, and the one thing moving across the sand was his own spooky shadow. He turned a stick, some pebbles, and a lot of mistakes into a way to tell time.
This is a funny stickman retelling of a real ancient invention. Egyptians used shadow clocks about 3,500 years ago. A stick's shadow moves across the ground as the sun climbs, and it is shortest at midday. Later versions used a T-shaped board with a crossbar whose shadow slid along marks, and the board had to be turned around at noon. The scenes in this video are an animated reconstruction.
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