solar eclipses Archive

Mysterious El Caracol At Chichen Itza: What Did Maya Astronomer-Priests Observe In The Sky?

AncientPages.com | May 24, 2019

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ancient astronomical observatories can be found on both American continents and elsewhere. Ancient people who built ziggurats, temples, and observatories, aligned them to exact

Ancient Solar Eclipses That Re-Wrote History And Made Ever-Lasting Impact On Humans

AncientPages.com | August 15, 2017

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Many look forward to the Great American Eclipse on August 21 this year. We think about eye protection equipment, weather conditions, and the

From 1300 to 1130 BC, the period when the events of both Homeric poems presumably took place, there were 14 solar eclipses. Only five of them were visible in the Ionian Sea area, and two of them only obscured 2% of the sun.

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Solar Eclipses And New Attempt To Date Homer’s Iliad And Odyssey

AncientPages.com | January 7, 2016

AncientPages.com - Scientists once again try to restore the chronology of the Homeric epics Iliad and Odyssey. They compare the natural phenomena the epic describes with astronomically ascertained ones,