Ancient Egyptian calendar is a solar calendar that was established by the ancient Egyptians to divide the year. It depends on the sun and its rotation, but it is not certain. Therefore, the ancient Egyptians relied on the planting season during the year. This calendar dates from the era of Ptolemy III, and it was reused and applied and became compatible with the Julian calendar.
The Coptic calendar appeared and some churches used it, it is completely different from the original Egyptian calendar The Egyptian calendar was one day behind the solar year every four years because the year was short by a quarter of a day, and the year consisted of three seasons, The Egyptian calendar followed the revised Julian calendar, but it differed from the Gregorian calendar in most centuries.
For about six thousand years, the Egyptians also relied on solar calculation, so we know that they calculated the time of the Nile flood, which was the sixteenth of June of each year, and their year consisted of 365 days divided into 12 months, each of which was thirty days long, and the remaining five days were a holiday.
The Egyptians were the ones who invented the sundial. It was long in the morning, then gradually shortened as the sunset. The Egyptians knew the movement of the planets, including Mars. However, the Egyptians like others confused astronomy and its towering manifestations with astrology (astrology) and the worship of the stars, so they worshiped Ra.
God of the sun, and creator of the world, as they worshiped (Horus) It must be remembered that the length of the astronomical year was only 12 minutes longer than the tropical year, which affected floods and produced 25 days throughout the known history of ancient Egypt.
He focused on the flood period in Egypt, which is the harvest season every 80 days at the end of February, and Egyptian agriculture followed three seasons.
Unlike other civilizations, it began with the first appearance of the crescent moon, which lasted 12 months.
Beginning in 2900 BC, it has 365 days and three seasons. It has been referred to as a wandering calendar and is used for administrative purposes.
Which was in use in the fourth century using the lunar cycle with the Gregorian calendar and resisted men Religion Many changes in the calendar and after 1460 years, the calendar was off by a year because it was growing by one day every four years.
The day was first divided into 24 hours by the ancient Egyptians who discovered a group of devices for measuring time Some of the first examples of a water clock were found in the magical Karnak Temple The ancient Egyptians understood early that time was the most valuable currency.
The ancient Egyptian calendar is unknown, but it is estimated to have started around 5,000 years ago. The lunar calendar was then used for their religious festivals and rituals four-month seasons, which were named after significant events related to their agrarian lifestyle.
