There are currently & have been threads where the concepts of time, dimensions, age etc have been discussed.

Many, but not all, of these discussions have related to the 'Old Testament', 'Talmud', 'Koran' & other works of antiquity.

For me, & I'm sure others too, there's puzzling aspects to the quoted details of people's ages [Noah, 400+ years, Methuselah etc]

Also dimensions of people & objects, [Goliath, the Ark]

Then there's the passage of time, in particular how it was measured.

I acknowledge that beside the western calendar, there's currently other ways of time measurement [Jewish, Chinese, Muslim calendars etc} but for example using one I'm familiar with, the 'christian calendar' evolved from the roman one, has the dating system beginning at AD & prior dates referred to as BC.

Now even this system's been subject to changes over the centuries, so how can we calculate, estimate these quantities of the ancient world?

Your thoughts?