The Origins of Egyptian Calendars and Their Modern Legacy  Dr.
Ronald Wells, currently a computer resource specialist at the
University of California, Berkeley, and an astronomer who
studied ancient Egyptian grammar and history at the Near Eastern
Studies Department in Berkeley in the 70s compared his return to
speak to that department and the members of ARCE to the return
of Sinuhe from his self-exile in Palestine. He began his January
talk noting that the need to measure time was of vital interest
to humankind. Knowing when to plant and when to harvest are
necessary to the success of food production. Dr. Wells recom-
mended consulting Revolutions in Time: Studies in Ancient
Egyptian Calendrics, a compendium of essays on ancient
timekeeping published by Van Siclen Books as a good starting
point for studying the development of ancient time measurement.
Alternatively, his chapter on the same subject can also be found
in Astronomy Before the Telescope published by the British
Museum Press in 1996.  Showing a Lan