The ancient calendar relied upon the apparent motion of these bodies through the sky to determine the seasons, months,and years. The reason why the 1582 lost ten days was by a major era in the existing julian calendar, which Julian caesar introduced in 46 b.c the way it happened was because each year was 356 ¼ days long so each time the years kept adding up. The mayan calendar does not say that the world will end in 2012.
The Ancient Calendars based a lot of the day and months off of the sky. They said 30 days was one month and they would switch it up. They would do 30 one month and 28 the next. The earliest Egyptian calendars was based on the moon cycles but later the egyptians realized that the dog star in canis major, we call Sirius rose
The Ancient Calendars based a lot of the day and months off of the sky. They said 30 days was one month and they would switch it up. They would do 30 one month and 28 the next. The earliest Egyptian calendars was based on the moon cycles but later the egyptians realized that the dog star in canis major, we call Sirius rose