The Coptic calendar is the 'Alexandrian year' which became in 30-26 BC the civil year in Egypt, the Julian year of European time-reckoning: this is essentially the ancient Egyptian calendar of 365 ...

with the ancient Egyptian name of the month in an early New Kingdom list, the late New Kingdom month name, its early medieval equivalent in Coptic (Christian) Egypt, and the rough equivalent in the ...

Ancient Egyptian: What have you got in this linen sack thing anyway? Oh, a calendar! Now that is useful. It’s similar to our own solar calendar which has 365 days in it. You do have bread at least!

Ancient Egyptian: What have you got in this linen sack thing anyway? Oh, a calendar! Now that is useful. It’s similar to our own solar calendar which has 365 days in it. You do have bread at least!

The biggest chunk of Egyptian solar capacity is provided by the Benban project, which lies 50 km from Aswan and is one of the world’s biggest PV sites. Official figures on its capacity vary from ...