Egyptian day, why was it not decimal?

Question

The Egyptians worked on a decimal sytem for counting and maths.
So why did the divide the day and night into 12 hours. The made the calander so why not split the day and night into 10 parts rather than 12 parts?

Answer 1

Say again.

Answer 2

The current time system is derived from the Sumerian numerical system which used a base of 12, rather than base of 10. This means that they counted up to twelve, and then went into double figures, as it were. The division of the day and the night into hours was first done (as far as we can tell from recorded history) by the Sumerians, so their system spread throughout the Middle East, Europe and eventually the world. The Sumerians were a cultural and liguistic group who lived in modern day Iraq from the 6th Millenium BC to the 3rd Millenium BC,
The callender is divided into twelve months for a different reason. The traditional Roman callendar was indeed decimal, and the names of the months september (seventh month) through to december (tenth month) reflect this. However, Julius Ceasar and later Augustus Ceasar inserted new months into the callender and named them after themselves, which is how we get the months of July and August. Hence the old seventh month became the nineth month and so on.
I think this should answer the question.

Answer 3

IIRC it was the babylonian system of counting that led to the division of time periods into 12's and 60's - and definately nothing to do with 'the west'

Answer 4

Our day comes from Mesopotamia not Egypt.

Answer 5

cause what the west decides is right is right

who cares who discovered what before we're here now

nevermind the chinese, indians and egyptians who came up with maths lets say it was the greeks

bah

im in a bitter mood today