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From the Vault: The Seven Day Week, Part 3

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Seven Day Circle by Evi Aatar as a Rubabel, by Stern and Bultrogini

Bultrogini and Stern disagree with something that I think we got from one of our other sources, which was the book The Seven Day Circle by Evi Aatar as a Rubabel. There's actually no very good evidence tracing the seven day week back to ancient Egyptian or Mesopotamian practices. We ultimately don't know exactly where it comes from. But we do have literary evidence from the ancient world of places where some kind of seven day weekly cycle are referenced.

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