This research explores historical naming systems for days, revealing a chronological shift affecting cultural perspectives.
This study establishes that the names of the days of the week underwent a chronological shift in history, resulting in an apparent three-day displacement relative to the ancient perspective of naming days according to the celestial body governing the first hour of nightfall. We present: 1) Archaeological evidence (Pompeii graffito dated February 6, 60 CE); 2) Babylonian-Greek-Roman astrological origins of weekday names and their order based on the ruling celestial body at dusk; 3) Coptic Easter letters by Bishop Athanasius showing two distinct naming systems for days. 4) Empirical evidence of the chronological displacement found in 4 milestones of Jewish history (with Greece in 161 BC) and with Rome (Captures of Jerusalem in 63 BC, in 36 BC, and in 70 AD).
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Emanuel R. Vidal (2025) studied this question.
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