Babylonians and Base-60

Honestly, I have no idea why they would choose a base number of 60 without doing any other research. Perhaps it had something to do with seasons? Cyclical changes for their crops or a way they measured time through the Sun. Sixty is also the first number with many factors (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60) and maybe that contributed. This is requiring too many brain cells, I’m going to go find out why now. 

Wow, would you look at that. It seems as though base 60 was used for its large number of factors and divisors. There also seems to be enough evidence to suggest that hand and finger counting methods gave five and twelve (fingers and knuckles respectively) which combined to create a system of sixty. 

In our current world, base 60 is what we use to measure time. 

*edit*

When I was initially thinking about why Babylonian's would use a number system with the only reason I could come up with in my head was the large number of factors. I was able to confirm my guess through the following link: https://www.thoughtco.com/why-we-still-use-babylonian-mathematics-116679

We also discussed in class how Babylonian's used to count to sixty on their hands but I wanted to confirm; through a quick Google search I found the following explanation on Reddit (I know it's unreliable but it went in line with what I heard in class): https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/e3i0j/til_that_sumerians_and_babylonians_used_a_base60/.