According to Live Science, the discovery sheds new light on the ancient Egyptian celebration of Wepet Renpet, or the Opening of the Year, a festival that was central to their culture and calendar.

The ancient Egyptians based their farming around the annual flooding of the River Nile. There were three seasons in the Egyptian calendar: Akhet Also called the Season of the Inundation.

The Egyptian calendar, too, was deeply intertwined with this astrological tradition. Unlike the Gregorian calendar we use today, the ancient Egyptian calendar was a solar calendar with 365 days, ...

We’re way ahead of anyone in Britain. Ancient Egyptian: What have you got in this linen sack thing anyway? Oh, a calendar! Now that is useful. It’s similar to our own solar calendar which has ...