Calendars are an essential part of keeping us organized, whether it’s a smartphone app or a kitten a day desk calendar. But it was the ancient Egyptians who created the first 365 day calendar. With farming being such an important part of Egyptian society, one flood could mean a whole lot of devastation. In order to know when the best and worst times would be they kept records of Nile River floods, and created a calendar to track when the worst floods would occur. They worked this out by studying the star Sirius, which would appear at the time the Nile would begin to flood.
The Egyptian calendar wasn’t split into the typical seasons we have now, but into three farming seasons: inundation, growing and harvest. Their seasons were divided into four months of 30 days each, with an extra five days added between harvest and inundation for religious celebrations.
Calendars are an essential part of keeping us organized, whether it’s a smartphone app or a kitten a day desk calendar. But it was the ancient Egyptians who created the first 365 day calendar. With farming being such an important part of Egyptian society, one flood could mean a whole lot of devastation. In order to know when the best and worst times would be they kept records of Nile River floods, and created a calendar to track when the worst floods would occur. They worked this out by studying the star Sirius, which would appear at the time the Nile would begin to flood.
The Egyptian calendar wasn’t split into the typical seasons we have now, but into three farming seasons: inundation, growing and harvest. Their seasons were divided into four months of 30 days each, with an extra five days added between harvest and inundation for religious celebrations.
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