Image: Charles K. Wilkinson, facsimile of the astronomical ceiling of the tomb of Senenmut (TT 353), Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0
A Knaph story
The Story of the Year
How people learned to fit the days into one trip around the Sun
c. 2500 BCE – today
A star rising before dawn, a year of 445 days, a Nowruz tied to the sky and ten days that never happened: how people slowly learned how long a year really is.
A Knaph story
The Story of the Year
How people learned to fit the days into one trip around the Sun
c. 2500 BCE – today
A star rising before dawn, a year of 445 days, a Nowruz tied to the sky and ten days that never happened: how people slowly learned how long a year really is.