A groundbreaking discovery revealed the successful decoding of one of the last remaining Dead Sea Scrolls, which contained an ancient priestly calendar used by a Jewish sect over 2000 years ago ...

Lunar New Year begins on the lunar calendar's first new moon and continues through the first full moon, which falls 15 days later. The new moon usually happens at some point between mid-January ...

One of the principal issues is that a lunar calendar year does not sync with a solar calendar year. There is approximately 11 days difference between the lunar and solar years. These 11 days, over ...

As it is based on the lunar calendar, the Islamic calendar only has 354-355 days, due to the fact that a lunar cycle typically lasts for 29 or 30 days rather than the 30 or 31 days per month used ...

The start of Ramadan fluctuates each year because the lunar Islamic calendar follows the phases of the moon. It begins the day after the new crescent moon, which can be tricky since it’s quite ...