Keep reading for some fun facts about timekeeping throughout the world’s history. 1. The First Measuring of Time Appeared in 2700 B.C. Keeping track of time is a very complex task, and calendars weren ...

Over the course of centuries, a calendar with no leap years would eventually become totally out of sync with the seasons as we know them. Let’s see what would happen. Leap years exist because we ...

2750 BC: The Sumerians were among the most inventive of ancient civilisations – and laid the foundations for the more advanced societies that were to follow.

Over time, the Sumerian calendar became increasingly out of sync with the seasons. Around the same time, Egyptians invented a solar calendar of 365 days a year, comprised of three four-month seasons, ...

Independent rock label Sumerian Records has signed a long-term distribution agreement with Virgin Music, with the first music under the new pact coming from alternative rock band Palaye Royale.

Poppy has returned to Sumerian Records and released the new single "Church Outfit" on the label after releasing an EP on Lava Records last year.

Sumerian legacy Today, 5,000 years after the Sumerians first began using 60, we divide our days by hours, minutes and seconds. In recent years, we have changed how the units are measured.

The sequences of dots, lines, and other shapes have been found in at least 400 caves throughout Europe, and may have recorded animal behavior.

A 360-day Sumerian calendar did not correspond in any way to astronomical time, but 360 is a number divisible into many whole numbers, ideal for parceling time into even ratios convenient for ...