meant to keep it roughly calibrated to the 365-day solar year, the Roman calendar was still based on lunar cycles, resulting in a 355-day year. The adjustments required to keep it on track were ...

The Roman’s pre-Julian calendar of just 10 months is said to have been established by Romulus — the first king of Rome, according to legend. This calendar ran from March to December, leaving a winter ...

Teymour Taj celebrates the beginning of 2025 by exploring the weird and wonderful history of calendars As 2025 rolled in, ...

Until 45 BCE, the Roman calendar was 12 months and spanned 355 days, with the occasional addition of a ‘mensis intercalaris’, an extra 27- or 28-day month between February and March. Julius Caesar ...

In 2024, archaeologists uncovered a scene on the ceiling of the Temple of Khnum in Upper Egypt that may depict a mythological representation of the New Year when the star Sirius rises. According ...

715-673 BCE), Roman emperor Numa Pompilius revised the Roman republican calendar to make January the year's first month instead of March. While January got its name from Janus, the Roman god of ...