African sundial artisans blend ancestral wisdom and contemporary science to craft sundials that are both precise and ...

A new study suggests that medieval stone discs found in Ukraine were likely used by Vikings as solar compasses to navigate ...

IN these days of accurate clocks and watches no one thinks of using a sun dial to tell the time of day. At best such an instrument can be right but four times a year, and in many places it can ...

You don’t get much more old school than a sundial, and more new school than 3D printing. So, it is nice to see these two combined in this impressive project: the 3D printed digital sundial.

Numerous ancient Egyptian obelisks remain standing today, most notably at Luxor Temple and the Karnak Temple complex. Some of ...

The sundial plate is affixed to a wedge-shaped structure ... (‘Analemma’ is the figure-eight pattern made by the sun in the sky over the course of a year, generated by a combination of ...