How much more difficult? As historian Michele Renee Salzman remarked in "The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome," the calendar was so far out of whack by Caesar's time that in 44 B.C., Jan. 1 ...
The ancient Egyptian calendar consisted of 365 days without ... the festival occurred at different times of the year. During the Roman occupation of Egypt from the mid-1st to mid-3rd centuries ...
The mysterious Lycurgus Cup is a convincing artifact indicating that, possibly unbeknownst to them, the ancient Romans used ...