Egyptian calendar

American  

noun

1. the calendar of ancient Egypt, having a year consisting of twelve 30-day months, with five additional days at the end, leap year not being considered.

---

Example Sentences

The paper explains the complexities stem from differences between the ancient Egyptian calendar, based on the sun, and the ancient Hebrew calendar, based on the Moon.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2016

The story: a 34-year-old University of Pittsburgh professor named Jotham Johnson had fixed the date when the ancient Egyptian calendar began.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. Jacobs said, because the first recorded date in history is 4241 B. C., in which year the Egyptian calendar was established.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Egyptian calendar had 12 months, like the lunar one, but each month was 30 days long.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

In this way they came to the same result as the Egyptians, but by a different process, since the Egyptian calendar was founded on a computation of twelve lunar months of thirty days each.

From Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846 by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe