Over the four week period in 2017 I took on a task of retelling the story of the Babylonian Flood. There are three fragmentary stories, the most famous of which is embedded within the myth of Gilgamesh, but their significance is great because they hold voices from the ancient past, further back than the Greeks of Homer, the Tanakh of …
What is Time? Julian Calendar
The Julian calendar was altered and misunderstood, but ultimately became the basis for all subsequent records of time until 1582. What is Time? Julian Calendar, the a new blog from These Fantastic Worlds.
What is Time? Ancient Calendars
Every ancient culture made accurate measurements of celestial motion, but they had a range of different solutions to the conflict between the lunar and solar year.