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How did the ancient Egyptians celebrate the new year?

How did the ancient Egyptians celebrate the new year?

The lack of a leap year meant that, over time, Wepet Renpet "wandered across the climatic seasons,"Juan Antonio Belmonte, a researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands who has written extensively about the calendar system of ancient Egypt, told Live Science in an email.


Scientists have dated the moon’s oldest, and largest, impact site

Scientists have dated the moon’s oldest, and largest, impact site

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