We Used To Think Eclipses Were The Sun Being Eaten By A Dragon

A Babylonian clay tablet gives the oldest intact record of a solar eclipse, on March 5, 1223 BC. “The sun went down, its gatekeeper was Mars,” the tablet says.


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