365 Day Calendar
Jacob C.
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Image 2: This is a picture showing the Egyptian people using the Nile River to help grow their civilization.
Why the Calendar was needed?
The Ancient Egyptians used the Nile River as a way for agriculture. However, the Nile River would often flood throughout the year. These floods would cause massive destruction to the Egyptians (Calvert), but the Nile River gave the Egyptians life and the chance to prosper. As a result of the Nile River flooding, the Ancient Egyptians made the calendar to predict the flooding of the Nile River (Miller-Gertz).
How the calendar was organized?
The Ancient Egyptian calendar was divided into 12 months that made up of one year. Those 12 months would be split into three seasons based on the Nile River flooding cycle (Miller-Gertz). The three seasons would be called Ahket (flooding season), Proyet (planting season), and Shomu (harvest season). To know when the cycle would begin the year would start when the star Sopdet would rise. Each month would have 30 days and each day would have 24 hours (Kamrin). The Egyptians used the lunar cycle to determine when the month would change and star movements to indicate that the season had changed (“The Archaeologist”).
Image 3: The image above shows the calendar that the Ancient Egyptians first used. Different symbols represented different times of the year.
Impacts the Calendar had on Egypt
Image 4: A picture showing Egyptians farming and attending the livestock.
Agriculture
With the flooding being able to be predicted, the Egyptians could just focus on how to improve their farming and make it as efficient as possible. They were able to develop other techniques like irrigation to help further the growth of agriculture.
Image 5: Shows the type of buildings that the Egyptians constructed like the pyramids.
Architecture
The flooding would not destroy the key aspects of Egyptian cities and villages now that they were able to be prepared for. This would allow the Egyptians to be able to develop things like the pyramids without having to worry about the Nile River flooding to destroy it. This would also allow Ancient Egyptian cities and villages to expand even further.
Image 6: Egyptian people gathered in a large group to get ready for a religious ceremony.
Religion
The calendar had included a lot of religious elements that had a religious meaning to the Egyptians. This can be seen through the events that they celebrated every month as a tribute to what they had believed in (University College London). There were also five extra days added on at the end of the year that were reserved for religious activities to take place (University College London). The calendar allowed the Egyptians to further express their beliefs.
Other interesting sources to look at!
This video explains how the calendar was divided as well as the Egyptian gods that were celebrated within the calendar. The video also includes the names of each of the months that were in the Egyptian calendar.
This video goes into the two calendars that were created during the time of the Ancient Egyptian civilization. It goes into how the calendar was divided and how the calendar impacted the lives of Egyptians on a day to day basis.
Facts about the Egyptian Calendar - This website provides additional facts that you might find interesting regarding the Egyptian calendar.
More in depth content about how the Egyptian Calendar worked - This website explains how each calendar in the Ancient Egyptian Civilization came to be as well as how each of the calendars were used.
The development and different versions of the Egyptian calendar - This website gives general information about the Ancient Egyptian Civilization. It also goes into the way the Ancient Egyptian calendar was set up and how it kept track of the days and the months.
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