Readers Ze’ev Orzech and Seth Cohen have written separately to inquire about the names of the months in the Hebrew calendar. Mr. Orzech especially wants to know about the calendar of the ...

Here’s how the Babylonian calendar worked. But the Babyloanians weren’t the only ancient society that celebrated the New Year. Ancient Romans had New Year’s celebrations, too.

The oldest Babylonian calendar consisted of 12 months, based on the cycles of the moon. At 354 days per year, it fell a fair number short of the astronomical year.

The timing of the festival and beginning of the Babylonians’ new year — which also sometimes occurred in March, marking the start of the farming season — was based on the Babylonian calendar ...

What was wrong with the Babylonian calendar? KUNKLE: But today the sun is in Sagittarius. And it's just due to the wobble or the precession of the Earth's axis.

The timing of the festival and beginning of the Babylonians’ new year — which also sometimes occurred in March, marking the start of the farming season — was based on the Babylonian calendar ...

The timing of the festival and beginning of the Babylonians’ new year — which also sometimes occurred in March, marking the start of the farming season — was based on the Babylonian calendar ...