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XXIV.—On the Antiquity of the Egyptian Calendar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

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The commemoration in the Egyptian Calendar of the rising of the Dog Star is a subject that has excited the curiosity of historians and antiquaries from the time of Sir Isaac Newton to the present day. One of the most learned of modern Egyptologists, Herr Brugsch, who has himself written a work on the Egyptian Calendar, has admitted, in his latest book, that this great secular problem is as yet unsolved.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1883

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page 466 note a History of Egypt under the Pharaohs, translated by Seymour, H. D. and Smith, P., 1879, ii. 173.Google Scholar

page 466 note b Records of the Past, viii. 81Google Scholar.

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