Mayans accurately predicted solar eclipses hundreds of years in the future
was among the professors interviewed by 9News on traditions in other cultures related to these astronomical events: 鈥淭he Maya actually predicted solar and lunar eclipses during the Classic period (AD 300-900). They did it not by a knowledge of astronomy as we understand things, but by keeping track of periodicities over many decades and centuries...鈥� One of our associates from Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, Kim Malville, gave the Andean perspective as well as pointing out a petroglyph at Chaco that very well may represent a total eclipse in 1097.听 You can read the story Denver Post .
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