Before the introduction of astrology, ancient Egyptians used the solar calendar exclusively, marking their days and years by stellar events. The heliacal rising of Sirius for example, was the start of the Nile flooding, which occurred every year at Cairo. After the introduction of astrology, the ...
There were advancements in arithmetic, astronomy, art, and military technology during the Shang dynasty. They spoke an early kind of modern Chinese and had a well-developed calendar system. In the Yellow River’s Yilou basin, about 10 kilometers southwest of Yanshi City in China’s Henan Prov...
most distant stars. Since 1987, Egypt Tours Portal has been one of the protectors of this great heritage, offering travelers from all over the world the finest chance to fully explore all the knowledge and elements that lead to the creation of the greatest civilization known to mankind.Read ...
Mythology and religion Among the myths of Egypt, certain cycles occupied a central place: the creation of the world, the punishment of mankind for its sins, the struggle of the sungod Re with the powers of darkness in the form of the serpent Apep, and the death and resurrection of Osiris...
The Kolbrin Bible is a collection of ancient writings from Egypt and the Celts that speak of a cosmic event the returns every 3,600 years.
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the judicial and the religious. The functions of the pharaoh consisted of preserving and maintaining respect for the laws of Maat, which maintain the order of the universe, from the moment of creation, not only in that which has to do with the social and political structure of Egypt, but ...
Calendar - Ancient, Religious, Systems: The lunisolar calendar, in which months are lunar but years are solar—that is, are brought into line with the course of the Sun—was used in the early civilizations of the whole Middle East, except Egypt, and in G
Renaming Egypt Throughout its long history, Egypt has been renamed several times. During the pharaonic age, it was known by the names Kemet (Black Land, owing to the black alluvial soil of the Nile valley), and Deshret (Red Land, owing to the vast expanse of desert land). The Greco-...
(solstices). This allowed them to discover that the sun disc, personified as Ra, took 365 days to travel from his birthplace at the winter solstice and back to it. Meanwhile in Upper Egypt a lunar calendar was being developed based on the behavior of the moon and the reappearance of...