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 Babylonian calendar was luni-solar comprising 12 lunar months. But the Dead Sea Scrolls also provide evidence of a number of texts that attempt to incorporate both the movements of the sun and ...

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 ...

This is a dependably regular 29.5 days and so is extremely tempting to use as the basis of a calendar. The first Babylonian calendar was accordingly made up of 12 lunar months of 29 and 30 days.

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 ...