18/11/2023
So they divided time into intervals according to the duodecimal system. Based on their religious beliefs, the subjects of the pharaohs considered day and night to be two different realms of existence. There was no concept of days yet, and therefore the day was divided into 12 parts, and the night into 12 parts. That is, at first the duration of these "hours" depended on the duration of day and night on a particular date, and only in the days of the equinoxes each of the 24 parts of the day had the same duration.
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