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What were some reasons that the ancient Egyptians adopted their two calendar systems?
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∙ 7y ago
The year was divided into three seasons: akhet (flood), peret (sprouting) and shemu (harvest). Each season had four lunar months, each of 30 days giving a total of 360 days.
"Weeks"consisted of 10 days, every tenth day being a non-working day.
Since the solar year is really just under 365.25 days, 5 extra "epagomenal" holidays were added on the end - the birthdays of Osiris, Seth, Horus, Isis and Nephthys. These were clearly not the real birthdays of those gods, simply an excuse to add the additional 5 days.
This calendar would be about 1 day out of true every 4 years so it was continually adjusted to catch up (whenever the priests got around to checking it), leading to much confusion about which dates are meant in inscriptions.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 7y agoTheir traditional calendar was aligned to the agricultural seasons. After Alexander the great took over Egypt, his Macedonian successors introduced a new calendar, modified later by the Romans as the Julian calendar. A modified Egyptian calendar has remained in use by the Coptic church and peasantry.
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∙ 11y agobecause one calendar had 365 days and the other one was a leap year calendar and had 366 days.
(kind of stupid though, but they are egyptians)
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