A historian breaks down some of the lovely details HoYoverse put into the Greek- and Roman-inspired world of Amphoreus in ...

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It was no easy task as Caesar ended up giving us the longest year in history of 445 days based on the advice of an astronomer. As well as Mercedonius, he added two other months, one of 33 days and ...

Wepet Renpet was intrinsically linked to the heliacal rising of Sirius, which heralded the summer solstice and the annual ...

(Relevance: In 2014, UPSC asked a question about the date in the Gregorian calendar for a normal year of 365 days that corresponds to Chaitra 1 of the national calendar based on the Saka Era.

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The timing of the festival and beginning of the Babylonians' new year — which also sometimes occurred in March, marking the ...

Although the Romans didn’t necessarily use the term resolutions, they tried to enter the new year with a positive mindset, as recorded by early first century texts such as the Roman poet Ovid’ ...

Credits: Slyronit, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. A 2000-year-old 70-acre Roman Bath has been completely restored in the ancient Greek city of Ephesus in modern-day Turkey. Professor Dr. Serdar ...

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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Paul Ollinger, author of "Reasonably Happy: The Skeptics Guide to Achievable Contentment." It has been edited for length and clarity. I grew ...