Description
The Ancient Egyptian Calendar followed the movements of the star Sothis (Sirius) in addition to the sun. This book discusses how the Egyptians divided time, after which turns to a detailed examination of ways Egyptian lunar calendars were tied by succeeding astronomers into the Julian Calendar, and thus into our own calendrical reckonings. The writer suggests that a mistake in ancient calculations might mean a considerable error in our dating of the Middle Kingdom, that means that it can be a much later period than usually assumed.