Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman theater discovered a rare artifact—an intact, inscribed sundial. The ...

Sometime around 2,000 years ago, a Roman citizen named Marcus Novius Tubula, fresh off an election win, dedicated a marble sundial to his small town of Interamna Lirenas—a sort of victory monument ...

The face of the sundial has 11 hour lines and runs through three day curves to indicate the track of the winter solstice, summer solstice and the equinox. Only a small bit of the iron needle that ...