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Mystery Of How Ancient Maya Accurately Predicted Solar Eclipses Solved

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Over 2,000 years before Europeans arrived in the Americas, indigenous civilizations in Mexico and Guatemala had already developed sophisticated calendrical systems. They used both a “divinatory” calendar of 260 days and a civil calendar of exactly 365 days. The divinatory calendar earned its name because specialists used it to predict individuals’ destinies based on their birth dates within this system.

By around 500 BCE, this calendar was linked to lunar cycles; it connected the name of a night when the Moon was visible with the count of nights since its last invisibility at new moon. Additionally, this divinatory system was applied to planetary cycles, with surviving records appearing centuries later.

The ancient Maya civilization is particularly renowned for its achievements in astronomy and mathematics, including highly accurate calendars and detailed celestial observations to predict eclipses. Although its precise mechanisms are not yet fully understood, ongoing research is shedding light on how the Maya achieved such remarkable accuracy in forecasting these events.

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