Reddit reviews Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source Book. Volume Two: Calendars, Clocks, and Astronomy

It looks like someone confused his Egyptian calendars

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The "year 6 of Al Sisi" was the calendar used in pre-Roman Egypt.

Ptolemny 3rd created what is now the Coptic Calendar, and it was only enforced by Augustus Ceaser. It's called the "Coptic Calendar" and not the "ancient Egyptian calendar" exactly because they are separate calendars, even if the Coptic Calendar borrowed heavily from the ancient Egyptian.

So this:

> The ancient Egyptians counted the years according to the ruler, not in a cumulative way like this. They had no idea how long ago something was in years, only in the number of rulers. So to an ancient Egyptian, we would now be in Year 6 of the rule of Al-Sisi.

Just doesn't apply to that. You seemed to be on the right track writing this:

> The Coptic calendar was established during the Roman period

But then somehow confused the two again.

Today, as of writing this comment, it is the 2nd of Thout in the year 1736 AM in the Coptic calendar.

>The priests kept king lists across Egypt that varied from one to the other. The older kings had mythological reigns of hundreds of years that led directly back in time to the primordial rule of gods. Some bad kings were simply excluded from the king lists altogether.

The Coptic calendar was synchornized to the Julian calendar:

> Year 1 in the Coptic calendar started on August 29, 284 in the Julian calendar. It was the year that Diocletian became Roman Emperor. In commemoration of the widespread prosecution of Christians during that era, years in the Coptic calendar are designated A.M., which is short for Anno Martyrum, Year of the Martyrs.

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> Every nationalist group in the region is doing this. There's now a Berber calendar, invented in France in the 1970s, that goes to like 6500 to a mythical date when they claim a Berber king invaded Egypt. Then there's the Assyrian calendar where in the 1950s they decided to set it at 6700. Now we have this random figure for us. It's all just patriotic dick measuring

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The Coptic calendar is 1736 years old, and there's evidence of the begninnings an ancient Egyptian calendar found from 3 thousand BC ( Clagetts Ancient Egyptian Science: A source book. Volume Two. Calendars, Cloks, and Astronomy )

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With all do respect, anything that doesn't fit the arab nationalist narrative you immediately dismiss as "patriotic dick measuring". What do you think Egyptians used before the Arab conquest to keep track of the date? We just lived in the dark and didn't have a calendar lmfao. This is not a "random figure" - ignorance about where something comes from does not mean it didn't exist, my good sir.