Ancient Egypt and Solar Eclipses (no replies)

Not very much is known regarding ancient Egyptian astronomical observations. Regarding eclipses we read:

[science.ksc.nasa.gov]

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One of the first things civilizations must do to ensure a coherant society is to establish an accurate calendar to organize planting and harvesting of crops. Most early calendars were lunar calendars, because the monthly duration of the lunar cycle is 29.53 days, 12.37 months during a solar seasonal year. Every year, the lunar "synodic" calendar of 29.53 days slips by 0.38 of a month or 11.2 days relative to the seasonal "planting" year.

At the same time that ancient peoples kept track of how the lunar and solar calenders meshed with each other, they also uncovered some of the factors that lead to lunar and solar eclipses which also require specific timings of the solar and lunar positions across the sky and over the years. In many ways, the ability to predict eclipses was an outgrowth of the pre-existing need to keep track of lunar and solar calender relationships.

My research into the planning of the Egyptian pyramid has led me to the revelation that they were erected based on geographical information of mountains in Hellas and Egypt.

Maybe we can derive a motive for choosing Hellas is wee look at astronomical information of the time the ‘Great’ Khufu pyramid was built.

Below I show how the Total Solar Eclipse that took place on February 4, 2588 BC crossed very close to mount Olympus in Hellas. Darkness fell over a large part of central and Northern Hellas.

If we stationed ourselves on the top of the tallest mountain of Europe, Mont Blanc on this day we could not see the eclipse, but the Sun disk was obscured 100% by the Moon disk below the ground. This means that the eclipse arc if extended would cross close to mount Blanc.



I used Stellarium data. Any ideas on what they had in mind?