An artwork depicting the seasons of ancient Egypt's farming calendar has gone missing from the famed Saqqara necropolis near ...

The 4,000-year-old limestone painting disappeared from the tomb of Khentika, a high-ranking official of the Old Kingdom ...

This feature, republished for the Coptic New Year, explores Egypt’s Pharaonic, Coptic, and Islamic calendars as novelist Ibrahim Abdel-Meguid reflects on the ancient calendar’s survival as both a ...

The large relief is one of only two known pieces of art that depict illustrations of the seasons. Now it’s gone.

A 4,000-year-old pharaonic painting has vanished from Egypt’s famed Saqqara necropolis, the latest artefact to disappear in ...

A Pharaonic painting has vanished from Saqqara necropolis, marking another archaeological loss in Egypt. The painting, part of a mastaba tomb from the Old Kingdom, depicted the ancient Egyptian ...

A limestone pharaonic painting has gone missing from Egypt's famed Saqqara necropolis, becoming the latest artifact to disappear in a country known for its rich and lengthy history. The painting was ...

Researchers previously thought the calendar ring on the Antikythera mechanism tracked the ancient Egyptian calendar, but new research suggests it tracked the Greek lunar calendar instead. When you ...

It was in 1582, Pope Gregory XIII instituted a major reform of the calendar, which has since been almost universally adopted.

pt. 1. Calendar in theory -- ch. 1. Calendar -- ch. 2. Astronomical background -- ch. 3. Time and the clock -- ch. 4. Writing and libraries -- ch. 5. Numbers and ...