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How did Ancient Humans Commemorate the New Year?
Ancient Egyptians celebrated New Years Day long before we did
1. New Years in Ancient Egypt
Celebrating a new year is not a recent development. New Year celebrations have been around for a long time — as long as 5000 years ago, during the Bronze Age in Ancient Egypt.
They had a celebration known as the Wepet Renpet, during which the Ancient Egyptians celebrated their transition into a new year with lots of food and alcohol. Coincidently, this festival was celebrated around the same time as the flooding of the Nile River each year. They possibly celebrated the flooding as the New Year because of more fertile lands and, hence, more agricultural produce for the people in Ancient Egypt.
2. New Year in Babylon
The people of Ancient Babylon (present-day Iraq) were the first to make New Year's Resolutions as we do now. They started celebrating New Year as early as 4000 years ago and marked the start of the year in March instead—at the time of planting their new crops. This celebration used to be prolonged, with a duration of…