The Western world celebrates New Year's Day on the first of January, though that was not always the case, and it took at least two major calendrical reforms in as many millennia to cement Jan. 1 ...

Prior to the Gregorian and even Julian calendars, Roman King Numa Pompilius (715-673 BC) set about creating a calendar with equal-length months, the University of Chicago said. "When Numa ...

According to Live Science, the discovery sheds new light on the ancient ... the Roman occupation of Egypt from the mid-1st to mid-3rd centuries CE, the Temple of Khnum's inscribed calendar reveals ...