"It is always difficult to establish if the eclipses were seen in the ancient past as bad omens or good omens." ...

But in ancient Egypt there was a general avoidance ... Thousands of years ago, in 1200 B.C.E., scribes in Anyang, China, recorded solar eclipse events on bones. "The Sun has been eaten," they ...

Despite lacking all the precise modern knowledge needed to predict an eclipse accurately, the ancient Irish created a monument that aligned with the solar eclipse of 3340 B.C.E. A millennia before ...