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Information about the earliest sundials has been found from archaeological finds and are sketchy. The earliest are the shadow clocks in ancient Egyptian and Babylonian astronomy and date back as far as 1500 BC. It is believed that humans were telling time from shadow-lengths even before 1500 BC, but there's no real verification to prove this.

The earliest written account of the sundial is found in the Bible in Isaiah 38:8 and II Kings. Other than that, very little is know of the history of sundials; however there is also one reference to sundials in an assembly of calendar experts in 104 BCE.

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