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One of five (or six) days used to match the Egyptian civil or wandering calendar to the solar year.
Related Terms
• Intercalation
• Wandering year
Ancient Egypt: the Father of Time
The way in which we divide the day into hours and minutes, as well as the structure and length of the yearly calendar, owes much to pioneering developments in ancient Egypt.
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