Ancient Egyptian: What have you got in this linen sack thing anyway? Oh, a calendar! Now that is useful. It’s similar to our own solar calendar which has 365 days in it. You do have bread at least!

The date is April 1, 2471 B.C., and a total solar eclipse has forced night to fall during the day in Egypt. The sun has morphed into a lifeless black circle surrounded by a milky halo, a ...

Such is the picture painted by a new study from archaeoastronomer Giulio Magli, who calculated that this ancient solar eclipse's path of totality coincides with a major shift in Egyptian tradition ...

"It is always difficult to establish if the eclipses were seen in the ancient past as bad omens or good omens." The date is April 1, 2471 B.C., and a total solar eclipse has forced night to fall ...

Here’s how six ancient cultures interpreted them: Ancient Chinese mythology attributed solar eclipses to celestial dragons attacking and devouring the sun. To frighten away the dragon and save ...

making it possibly the oldest solar calendar in ancient civilization. Marking a massive comet strike as the start, inhabitants used symbols to record every astronomical event, including those as ...