Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism ... theory that the mechanism actually calculates the lunar calendar. This study also highlights the immense ...

And it just so happens that, in 44 BCE, the Ides of March was the date when Julius Caesar was assassinated. Way back then, ...

The lunar calendar was the basis for figuring out when ... As Near Eastern societies became more complex in the 3rd and 4th Millennium BCE, how did they reconcile all this? And how did the ...

Caesar had been working with astronomers to reform the calendar system to something more similar to what is used today: a Sun-based system, rather than one based on the lunar cycle. These reforms were ...