Ancient Egyptians may have chronicled the flickering of a star known as "the Demon," perhaps the earliest known record of a variable star, astronomers suggest. The ancient Egyptians wrote calendars ...

Unlike the Hijra calendar, which is lunar, the ancient Egyptian calendar is solar, like the Gregorian. It has 365 days that are roughly divided into three seasons, each of which has four months.

In 2024, archaeologists uncovered a scene on the ceiling of the Temple of Khnum in Upper Egypt that may depict a mythological ...

In 1904 Eduard Meyer stated that the Egyptian calendar was invented about 4231 B. C., and some of the principal Egyptologists of his generation adopted this theory with minor modifications. In recent ...

Researchers previously thought the calendar ring on the Antikythera mechanism tracked the ancient Egyptian calendar, but new research suggests it tracked the Greek lunar calendar instead. When you ...

Was Stonehenge an ancient solar calendar, as a 2022 study claimed? Not at all, says a new study by two scientists who specialize in ancient astronomy. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

THE calendar of the ancient Egyptians was one of the earliest experiments in calendar making, and it was one of the most enduring. It was still in use at the beginning of the Christian era much as it ...