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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 an intercalary month of five epagomenal days treated as outside of the year proper.
The Season of the Inundation or Flood ( Ancient Egyptian: Ꜣḫt) [ b ] was the first season of the lunar and civil Egyptian calendars. It fell after the intercalary month of Days over the Year ( Ḥryw Rnpt) [ 3 ] and before the Season of the Emergence ( Prt ). [ 4 ] In the Coptic and Egyptian calendars this season begins at the start of the ...
The majority of Egyptologists agree on the outline and many details of the chronology of Ancient Egypt. This scholarly consensus is known as the Conventional Egyptian chronology, which places the beginning of the Old Kingdom in the 27th century BC, the beginning of the Middle Kingdom in the 21st century BC and the beginning of the New Kingdom ...
The Sothic cycle or Canicular period is a period of 1,461 Egyptian civil years of 365 days each or 1,460 Julian years averaging 3651⁄4 days each. During a Sothic cycle, the 365-day year loses enough time that the start of its year once again coincides with the heliacal rising of the star Sirius ( Ancient Egyptian: spdt or Sopdet, 'Triangle ...
The Season of the Harvest was divided into four months. In the lunar calendar, each began on a dawn when the waning crescent moon was no longer visible. In the civil calendar, each consisted of exactly 30 days [9] divided into three 10-day weeks known as decans . In ancient Egypt, these months were usually recorded by their number within the ...
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 ( Ꜣḫt) and before the Season of the Harvest ( Šmw ). [1] In the Coptic and Egyptian calendars this season begins at the start of the month of Tobi (about 9 January), continues ...
Hathor ( Coptic: Ϩⲁⲑⲱⲣ, Hathōr ), also known as Athyr ( Greek: Ἀθύρ, Athýr) and Hatur [1] ( Arabic: هاتور ), is the third month of the ancient Egyptian and Coptic calendars. It lies between November 10 and December 9 of the Gregorian calendar. The month of Hathor is also the third month of the season of Akhet (Inundation ...
Top and bottom portions [ 1] Astronomical ceiling decoration in its earliest form can be traced to the Tomb of Senenmut (Theban tomb no. 353), located at the site of Deir el-Bahri, discovered in Thebes, Upper Egypt. The tomb and the ceiling decorations date back to the XVIII Dynasty of ancient Egypt (circa 1479–1458 BCE).