The Importance of Time

The moon would be the basis of our earliest calendars. The ancient Egyptians, Sumerians and Babylonians worked their mathematicians and philosophers to set up the basic framework for the time we keep today. Have you ever wondered why so much of our time is based on 60s and 12s? It was before the Romans got all obsessed with the 10s, the precursors to our metric, loving friends.