Eudoxus of Cnidos (c. 408-355 BC) was one of the first to suggest that the ancient Egyptian use of lunar ‘years’ to measure time was the explanation for the exaggerated time spans given by their priests when describing the antiquity of their civilisation. This idea was later repeated by Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus and as Spanuth noted, was reaffirmed in modern times by Egypt’s former King Farouk.