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The ancient Egyptians were the first to have based their calendar on the sun cycle and have made the month and the unit 's ability arbitrarily purely, not correspond to the actual lunar cycle. They have devised a year consisting of 360 days, 12 months and where each of them consisting of 30 days. As it is , according to their calculations, the sun takes 365 days to complete the journey in the sky, it has added five days at the end of the 360 days a year. It was the added days are treated as "days of the festival" (harvest festival). The pledge to the Egyptian priests task of arranging for those days celebration.
We have adopted the ancient Egyptian calendar of 365 days in the year 4236 BC, according to the calculations of the American archaeologist James Henry Breasted. According to Breasted, this was " the oldest calendars information, appropriate practice, which consists of 365 days." As for the year 4236 BC, it represents "not only the oldest specific period in history but it is also the oldest civilization in the history of mankind."
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