One researcher wrote, ‘We should trust that ancient chronological record keepers were correct and accept the details in their documents
Month: May 2024
Common Sense and Egyptian Cattle Counts: Were They Annual or Biannual?
During the Egyptian “Old Kingdom” period, at least from the Second Dynasty through the Sixth, officials kept track of the
Common Sense and Astronomical Reliefs on Babylonian Boundary Stones
The incomplete illustration above contains some prominent astronomical symbols. It includes a scorpion, a representation of Scorpius constellation. The picture
Common Sense and the Assyrian Lunar Calendar without Intercalary Months
Would you believe a modern scholar’s interpretation of an ancient custom that seems utterly contrary to that ancient community’s benefit