SEVENTY YEARS.
METHUSELAH’S REAL AGE
CALCULATION BY MOONS,
In an article in a recent issue of the Edinburgh Weekly Scotsman, a remark was made about Methuselah, as if he actually lived 969 years.
“Even scientific writers” (says a correspondent of the same journal) “try to explain this by asserting that the kind of food at that time must have been quite different from what it is to-day. The truth is Methuselah lived 969 moons of 28 days, that is 70 years three months according to our Roman calendar. At that period, time could only be measured by the moon, and in China to-day time is still calculated by the moon. About the 11th century the first calendar by the Mohammedans appeared, and the Roman calendar about the 14th century.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3763, 6 March 1928, Page 1
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129SEVENTY YEARS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3763, 6 March 1928, Page 1
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