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Considering water clocks date back to 1500 BCE it wouldn't be hard.



So what did the monks in the pre-1500s do?


Unbelievably, there were very few medieval monks before the birth of Christ.


BC, there were no Christian monks for at least another 15 centuries after the κλεψύδρα was invented.




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