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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 had been in the Pyramid age three thousand years before, having had an uninterrupted existence throughout more than half of man's recorded existence. Many theories, all differing fundamentally, have been put forward as to its origin. These have been reviewed recently by H. E. Winlock (“The Origin of the Ancient Egyptian Calendar”. Proc. American Philosophical Soc., 83, No. 3; 1940), introducing a further suggestion as to the natural phenomena which first marked the changing seasons for the ancient Egyptians and came to be the foundation of their calendrical system.
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Origin of the Egyptian Calendar. Nature 147, 31–33 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147031b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147031b0