![]() The first recorded physical calendars, dependent on the development of writing in the Ancient Near East, are the Bronze Age Egyptian and Sumerian calendars. Nevertheless, the Roman calendar contained remnants of a very ancient pre-Etruscan 10-month solar year. The course of the sun and the moon are the most salient natural, regularly recurring events useful for timekeeping, thus in pre-modern societies worldwide lunation and the year were most commonly used as time units. Equinox seen from the astronomic calendar of Pizzo Vento at Fondachelli Fantina, Sicily
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