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    The ancient Egyptian calendar – a civil calendar – was a solar calendar with a 365-day year. The year consisted of three seasons of 120 days each, plus...
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    Egyptian priests, and the reform was not adopted until 25 BC, when the Roman Emperor Augustus imposed the Decree upon Egypt as its official calendar (although...
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  • distinguishes the groupings Egyptian calendars (Ancient Egypt), Babylonian calendars (Ancient Mesopotamia), Indian calendars (Hindu and Buddhist traditions...
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    Bronze Age Egyptian and Sumerian calendars. During the Vedic period India developed a sophisticated timekeeping methodology and calendars for Vedic rituals...
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  • ancient Egyptian calendar consisted of twelve months, each divided into three weeks of ten days, with five intercalary days. The original Roman calendar consisted...
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    himself. Ancient Egypt Archaeoastronomy Dendera zodiac Decans, Egyptian constellations. Egyptian astronomers Egyptian calendar Egyptian mathematics History...
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  • Gregorian calendar, while they are in the Ethiopian calendar, meaning dates before 1900 and after 2100 will be offset. Egyptian calendar Coptic calendar Computus...
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  • ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and Ethiopian calendars are a period of five days in common years and six days in leap years in addition to those calendars' 12...
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  • Month (redirect from Calendar month)
    Assyrian calendar Chinese calendar Egyptian calendar Ethiopian calendar French Republican calendar Kurdish calendar Lunar month Maya calendar Month of...
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  • phenomena in 24 BC in both the Egyptian and Roman calendars. From 30 August 26 BC (Julian), Egypt had two calendars: the old Egyptian in which every year had...
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  • 2nd-century works. Egyptian hieroglyphics and Transliteration of Ancient Egyptian Ancient Egyptian mathematics and technology Egyptian calendar and astronomy...
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    many details of the chronology of Ancient Egypt. This scholarly consensus is known as the Conventional Egyptian chronology, which places the beginning of...
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    A lunisolar calendar is a calendar in many cultures, incorporating lunar calendars and solar calendars. The date of lunisolar calendars therefore indicates...
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    Sothic cycle (redirect from Sothis calendar)
    of the star Sirius (Ancient Egyptian: spdt or Sopdet, 'Triangle'; Greek: Σῶθις, Sō̂this) on 19 July in the Julian calendar. It is an important aspect of...
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  • Season of the Inundation (category Egyptian calendar)
    of the Inundation or Flood (Ancient Egyptian: Ꜣḫt) was the first season of the lunar and civil Egyptian calendars. It fell after the intercalary month...
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  • Season of the Harvest (category Egyptian calendar)
    or Low Water was the third and final season of the lunar and civil Egyptian calendars. It fell after the Season of the Emergence (Prt) and before the spiritually...
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    Copts (redirect from Coptic Egypt)
    This calendar is based on the ancient Egyptian calendar. To avoid the calendar creep of the latter, a reform of the ancient Egyptian calendar was introduced...
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    Hijri calendar (Arabic: ٱلتَّقْوِيم ٱلْهِجْرِيّ, romanized: al-taqwīm al-hijrī), or Arabic calendar also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic...
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    alphabet. The first task is to rotate the Egyptian calendar ring to match the current zodiac points. The Egyptian calendar ignored leap days, so it advanced through...
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  • All Arab states use the Gregorian calendar for civil purposes. The names of the Gregorian months as used in Egypt, Sudan, and Yemen are widely regarded...
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  • Badí‘ calendar Basotho calendar Bengali calendar Gregorian calendar Berber calendar Bulgar calendar Byzantine calendar Caesar's Calendar Coptic calendar Discordian...
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    Ptolemies began to adopt Egyptian customs, such as marrying their siblings per the Osiris myth and participating in Egyptian religious life. New temples...
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  • Mesori (category Egyptian calendar)
    month of the ancient Egyptian and Coptic calendars. It is identical to Nahase (Amharic: ነሐሴ, Nähase) in the Ethiopian calendar. The ancient and Coptic...
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  • Season of the Emergence (category Egyptian calendar)
    The Season of the Emergence (Ancient Egyptian: Prt) was the second season of the lunar and civil Egyptian calendars. It fell after the Season of the Inundation...
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  • unified Achaemenid Empire required a distinctive Iranian calendar, and one was devised in Egyptian tradition, with 12 months of 30 days, each dedicated to...
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    considerably more complex deity. Set represented the moon in the ancient Egyptian calendar. Metztli, Coyolxauhqui and Tēcciztēcatl are all lunar deities in the...
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    Decan (category Egyptian calendar)
    (/ˈdɛkənz/; Egyptian bꜣktw or baktiu, "[those] connected with work") are 36 groups of stars (small constellations) used in the ancient Egyptian astronomy...
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    farmers, who lived in rural villages and spoke the Egyptian language (which evolved from the Demotic Egyptian of the Late and Ptolemaic periods to Coptic under...
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    Nabta Playa (category Egyptian calendar)
    site, one of the earliest of the Egyptian Neolithic Period, is dated to circa 7500 BC. Although today the western Egyptian desert is totally dry, this was...
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    calendar had a ten-day week, as did the ancient Egyptian calendar (and, incidentally, the French Republican Calendar, dividing its 30-day months into thirds)...
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